Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole,… — Leonardo da Vinci
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people… — Gale Norton
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves… — Leo Tolstoy
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find… — Gertrude Jekyll
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet… — Graham Hancock
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is… — Leonardo da Vinci
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. — Raymond Chandler
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves. — Michael Pollan
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. — Ellsworth Huntington
Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain… — Sterling W Sill
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,… — Plutarch
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. — Bill Mollison
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants? — Henry David Thoreau
It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That… — Richard Stallman
The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers. — Piet Oudolf
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner… — Kobayashi Issa
These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize. — Wladimir Klitschko
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard

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