We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is… — Wolfgang Laib Copy Share Image
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen. — Christian Konrad Sprengel Copy Share Image
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image