“One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations… — Douglas Tallamy Copy Share Image
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need… — Timothy Walker 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
“Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.” — Henry Sherman Adams Copy Share Image
“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Increased transmission capacity can provide consumer cost savings and reduce the need for fossil-fueled power plants that exist solely to meet peak… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants. — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists.… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
When the power grid gets compromised the coal from Appalachia can be trucked to our power plants so they can be put… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants. — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.” — Charles Dowding Copy Share Image
“Hanging around the small minded eventually makes us small minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it's in.” — Torron-Lee Dewar Copy Share Image
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
