Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the… — Paulo Coelho
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the… — Marcello Malpighi
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots… — Seneca the Younger
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson
If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,… — Steven Chu
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but… — Michel de Montaigne
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically… — Wallace D. Wattles
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that… — George W. Bush
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. — Carl Linnaeus
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or… — Michael Faraday
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of… — John Owen
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords. — George Perkins Marsh
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,… — Carl Linnaeus
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and… — Douglas Adams

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