Best Plant Qoutes
1747 Plant quotes by 1155 unique authors
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Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in…
— Unknown Author
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Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and…
— Jose Ramos-Horta
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It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask:…
— Unknown Author
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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when…
— Laozi
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The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own…
— Ruth Bernhard
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On…
— Aldo Leopold
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The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.
— LeGrand Richards
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In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they…
— Laozi
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Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
— George Monbiot
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Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they…
— Gerald Durrell
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An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs…
— Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
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Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he…
— Karl Popper
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To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told…
— Thomas Browne
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The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a…
— Eve Curie
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If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
— Davies Gilbert
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We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What…
— Unknown Author
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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured…
— Beryl Markham
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Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four…
— Deval Patrick
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever…
— William Shakespeare
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
— Milton Friedman
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The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.
— Masaru Emoto
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