Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this… — John Ruskin
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live.… — Kodo Sawaki
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a… — Donald Judd
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants… — Bill Mollison
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking… — Bill Mollison
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes… — Bill Mollison
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants… — Jacque Fresco
You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Â Take the oxygen away, we all die… — Jacque Fresco
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these… — George Schaller
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… — T.E. Lawrence
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create… — Thomas Carper
In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their… — Daniel Yergin
My motherâ€™s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants.… — Gregoire
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed. — Rupert Hughes
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but… — David M. Raup
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the… — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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