Plants Quotes

815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors

The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… — Jack Kerouac
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never… — Michael Crichton
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, theyâ€™re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, letâ€™s make up.… — Jerry Seinfeld
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of… — William Goldman
Love all Godâ€™s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.… — Jerry Spinelli
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings… — Nicholas Sparks
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader… — Terry Goodkind
There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and… — Banana Yoshimoto
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. — John Muir
Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. — Neil Gaiman
Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with… — Benjamin Hoff
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the… — Mark Helprin
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr
It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower,… — Brandon Sanderson
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars.… — Tim Winton
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve… — Libba Bray
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith

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