Plants Quotes
815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors
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Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be…
— Arjun Makhijani
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Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife…
— Thomas Lovejoy
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My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often…
— Helen Simonson
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Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the…
— Toby Hemenway
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The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could…
— Tom Standage
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The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits…
— Toby Hemenway
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The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to…
— Chanakya
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In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with…
— Leo Lionni
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They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very…
— Stephen King
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And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run…
— Robert Kennedy
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
— Paulo Coelho
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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
— Jonathan Haidt
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less…
— Jim Costa
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Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
— Peter Sloterdijk
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Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think…
— Giordano Bruno
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My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In…
— Aldo Leopold
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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human…
— Egon Schiele
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That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
— Matthew Henry
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The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the…
— Joseph J. Romm
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