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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. — A. Whitney Brown
Plant trees, Lots of trees — Al Gore
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but… — Michel de Montaigne
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst… — Marcel Proust
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically… — Wallace D. Wattles
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that… — George W. Bush
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. — Carl Linnaeus
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or… — Michael Faraday
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of… — John Owen
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords. — George Perkins Marsh
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all… — Lorenz Oken

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