Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image ““I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany.”” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.” — Anne Wareham Copy Share Image
“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.” — Bhim Rao Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.” — E.J.H. Corner Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“And yet, scholars said it must be a plant for the way it grew and reached toward the light. Men did that too, he… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The act of farming starts in the heart before it reaches the soil.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a normal conformation,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“You can't shake the roots of life and hope for a better tomorrow. Planting is the way of our journey, leaving them to grow… — Niklaus Vestalla Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
