We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
People say, 'Where do you get your strength from?' Well, where does an ape get his strength from? They are 20 times… — David Haye Copy Share Image
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe… — Percy Julian Copy Share Image
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning… — Nicola Formichetti Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge… — David Hobson Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“The steps, also brick, were lined on both sides with potted plants. Grandma grew lemongrass, citronella, and catnip in those pots to… — Rhonda McKnight Copy Share Image
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“The idea that damage has to be pain is mistaken. We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have always had a tumultuous relationship with plants. I fall head over heels, we start off so well but within days,… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but… — Jan Ingenhousz Copy Share Image
“Dazed, she glanced around; the dark shapes of huge leaves reared above the denser dark of heavy pots, grouped upon a tiled… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
“Every day, at least for a few minutes, go and be with the plants. Look at them and smile, touch them with… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I found that I skip and jump when I strike the ball and it helps to get it up and over. If… — James Ward-Prowse Copy Share Image
Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with… — Jane Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic… — Jay Kappraff Copy Share Image
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then,… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
