Plants Quotes

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I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Unknown Author
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup
John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest of the night… — Cynthia Lennon
Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself… — Unknown Author
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,… — John Evelyn
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. — Unknown Author
Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about… — Elisabeth Murdoch
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in… — Elisabeth Murdoch
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the… — Hal Porter
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with… — Donna Reed
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants,… — Barack Obama
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run… — Vaclav Smil
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. — Dogen

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