Best Plant Words
1747 Plant quotes by 1155 unique authors
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I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
— Lee Trevino
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It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
— John Dewey
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
— Charles Darwin
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it…
— George Amos Dorsey
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
— Jack Kornfield
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other…
— Alfred Nobel
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Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!
— Tom Jones
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.
— Jay Leno
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Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the…
— Paulo Coelho
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively…
— Joseph Paxton
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It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the…
— Marcello Malpighi
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The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
— Robert MacNeil
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If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
— Dan Castellaneta
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The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is…
— Rajneesh
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots…
— Seneca the Younger
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to…
— Karl Kraus
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The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
— William Shakespeare
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
— E. O. Wilson
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If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,…
— Steven Chu
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