Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of… — Victor Hugo
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to… — Wendell Berry
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change… — Sue Monk Kidd
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who… — Diane Ackerman
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't… — Bill McKibben
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. — Jean Cocteau
Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless… — Eckhart Tolle
Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it. — Robert Ballard
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of… — Hal Borland
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil… — Thom Hartmann
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler… — Asa Gray
The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its… — Thomas Troward
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather,… — Terence McKenna
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the… — Chogyam Trungpa
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. — Unknown Author
We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. — Simone Weil
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. — Claude McKay

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