Plants Quotes
815 quotes by 601 authors
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined,…
— Di Morrissey
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
— Ruth Pitter
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
— William Blake
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It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution…
— James Madison
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without…
— Luigi Pirandello
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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it…
— Elisha Gray
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All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.
— Herman Boerhaave
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
— Aristotle
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Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really…
— Unknown Author
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I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.
— Tim DeChristopher
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I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things,…
— Klaus Kinski
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This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
— Mark Bittman
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I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening,…
— Sean Bean
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President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign…
— Dan Rather
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There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the…
— Tim Gunn
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One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms,…
— Daphne Zuniga
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I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an…
— Jason Bateman
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