Best Plant Thoughts
1747 Plant quotes by 1155 unique authors
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,…
— Carl Linnaeus
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The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with…
— Galileo Galilei
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Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a…
— Albert Einstein
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will…
— Hal Borland
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The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter…
— Carolyn Murphy
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
— Diane Ackerman
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For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
— Douglas Adams
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do…
— Richard Hamming
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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea…
— John Polkinghorne
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In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of…
— Thomas Paine
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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
— Michael Fish
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
— Dorothy Malone
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After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing
— Unknown Author
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The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers,…
— Unknown Author
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Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because…
— Rodolfo Llinas
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I…
— Og Mandino
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In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts,…
— Nicolas Steno
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We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on…
— Joseph Glanvill
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
— David Bryant
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On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
— Darrell Royal
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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