Plants Quotes
815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors
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To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry…
— Wendell Berry
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Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom…
— Sonia Choquette
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert†letters on the page now speak to…
— David Abram
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
— C.S. Lewis
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Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.
— Kris Carr
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Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants…
— Gray Davis
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So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market,…
— Gray Davis
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the…
— William Bligh
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The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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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
Who Wrote These Plants Quotes
601 authors contributed a total of 815 Plants Quotes, led by these top contributors: