Plants Quotes
815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors
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Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too,…
— Nelson Mandela
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For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked…
— Rudolf Steiner
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God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they…
— Jessa Gamble
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Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth…
— Neil Shubin
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We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the…
— Van Jones
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different,…
— Sam Trammell
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With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear…
— Ann Coulter
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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater…
— Ken Kesey
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort.…
— W. Averell Harriman
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...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth…
— Andrew Weil
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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment,…
— Michael Savage
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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
— Jared Diamond
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Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
— Spike Milligan
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I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts…
— Emmet Fox
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To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility…
— Aristotle
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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external…
— Theophrastus
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I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.
— Kyan Douglas
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Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.
— Diana Kennedy
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Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of…
— Justus von Liebig
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In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
— Jakob Bohme
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,…
— George Perkins Marsh
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Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus…
— Marston Bates
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