Plants Quotes
815 Plants quotes by 601 unique authors
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The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
— Alain de Botton
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The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have…
— Wendell Berry
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As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
— Isabel Allende
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But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The…
— Gary Snyder
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity,…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated…
— Oswald Chambers
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I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers…
— Suzanne Collins
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What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
— Carl Sagan
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
— Mother Teresa
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
— Ann Voskamp
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Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
— Carl Sagan
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You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for…
— Lucy Christopher
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At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants,…
— Piers Anthony
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God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the…
— Joyce Meyer
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Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
— Vanna Bonta
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of…
— Ben Okri
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