Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences… — Ray Lankester
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government… — Harry Browne
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full… — D. Elton Trueblood
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide. — Jerry Seinfeld
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience… — Wendell Berry
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! — Thomas Edward Brown
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as… — Charles Dudley Warner
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy. — May Sarton
With plants, persuasion is better than force. — Unknown Author
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for… — David Hobson
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
He who plants a tree, plants a hope. — Lucy Larcom
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups… — Russell Page
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime… — Unknown Author
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he… — John Evelyn
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig… — Unknown Author
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants… — Henryk Skolimowski
I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible. — Lee Trevino

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