Plant Quotes
1747 quotes by 1212 authors
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
— David Attenborough
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions…
— David Attenborough
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
— Margaret Atwood
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
— Diane Ackerman
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be…
— Francis Bacon
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
— Edward Abbey
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
— Joe Barton
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants…
— Joe Barton
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and…
— Saint Basil
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in…
— Adele
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
— Wendell Berry
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
— Wendell Berry
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
— Wendell Berry
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do…
— Annie Besant
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your…
— Joe Biden
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I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for…
— Mark Bittman
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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I…
— Lewis Black
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