Force Quote by Elsa Bakalar Download Open image “With plants, persuasion is better than force.” — Elsa Bakalar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Garden Gardening Persuasion Plant
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
“Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be… — David Wheeler Copy Share Image
One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable. — Elsa Bakalar Copy Share Image
Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money. — Elsa Bakalar Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
