Pollen Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.
— Christian Konrad Sprengel
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…
— K. Eric Drexler
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But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't…
— Nahoko Uehashi
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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom…
— George Iles
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In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. Then…
— M. Russell Ballard
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We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But…
— Deena Metzger
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The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to…
— Joseph Campbell
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I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all…
— Wolfgang Laib
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I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is…
— Wolfgang Laib
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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees .…
— Hilda Doolittle
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Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
— Slash Coleman
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Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes,…
— Nina Fedoroff
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
— James Russell Lowell
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
— Alice Hoffman
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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
— Gerald Durrell
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I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from…
— Pablo Neruda
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to…
— Gladys Taber
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I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each…
— Luke Davies
Who Wrote These Pollen Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 29 Pollen Quotes, led by these top contributors: