Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents,… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all… — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I'm a nature lover, I want at any given time to be able to bring lots of plants into my house, have… — Sebastian Clovis Copy Share Image
Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material… — Alexis Stewart Copy Share Image
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along… It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off… — John Colton Copy Share Image
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as… — Rudolf Diesel Copy Share Image
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Unlike the visible and heavily regulated airborne emissions from power plant smokestacks, coal ash is largely unseen unless there is a major… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image