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Plant Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
- The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
- If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience…
- You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
- Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to…
- To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry…
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have…
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- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian… — Joe Barton
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And… — Joe Barton
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record.… — Adele