Best Plant Quotes
1747 Plant quotes by 1155 unique authors
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
— Robert Browning
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing…
— Luther Burbank
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of…
— Luther Burbank
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In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world…
— Luther Burbank
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
— Brooke Burke
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
— George W. Bush
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
— Orson Scott Card
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does…
— Emily Carr
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at…
— Noam Chomsky
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
— B R Ambedkar
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
— Laozi
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If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,…
— Henry Beston
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people,…
— Nhat Hanh
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of…
— Unknown Author
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences…
— Ray Lankester
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There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts…
— Henry Mitchell
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War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant…
— Unknown Author
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
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