Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. — 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 it and millions… — 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 which abounds in… — 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 and our own. — Diane Ackerman
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be… — Francis Bacon
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants… — Joe Barton
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and… — Saint Basil
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
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. — Wendell Berry
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do… — Annie Besant
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for… — Mark Bittman
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I… — Lewis Black
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
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
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
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
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
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
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
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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