Plant famous quotes
04-27-2025
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.
-- Alan Autry -
A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
-- Alexander Pope -
If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
-- Amy Poehler -
God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.
-- Andrew Ryan -
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
-- Andy Couturier -
Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
We have much to hope from the flowers.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
-- Asa Gray -
Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing
-- B. J. Fogg -
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
-- Ben Vereen -
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
-- Beth Ditto -
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
-- Bette Lord -
If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.
-- Billy Rose -
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
-- Bob Goff -
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
-- Bob Marley -
A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
-- Brooke Burke -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
You can never see a plant grow, but they do.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
-- Celia Thaxter -
Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
-- Charles G. Dawes -
The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.
-- Chris Kilham -
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
-- Christopher Tunnard -
It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.
-- Clare Leighton -
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
-- Claude McKay -
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.
-- Costa Georgiadis -
We shall not always plant while others reap
-- Countee Cullen -
And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have been around for a while, at least since humans first started experimenting with these plants.
-- D. M. Turner -
And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree
-- David Archuleta -
For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
-- Ed Begley, Jr. -
Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.
-- Edward Conze -
With plants, persuasion is better than force.
-- Elsa Bakalar -
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
-- Esther Williams -
I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,
-- Felix Dennis -
I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.
-- Ferruccio Lamborghini -
We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We...
-- Gary Larson -
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
-- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
-- Gray Davis -
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
-- Gregor Mendel -
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
-- Grenville Kleiser -
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
-- Guru Nanak -
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
-- Hamdi Ulukaya -
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
-- Hank Haney -
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.
-- Henry Mitchell -
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
-- Herbert Rappaport -
Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.
-- Jack Dangermond -
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.
-- James Nicoll -
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
-- Jane Addams -
Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.
-- Janette Rallison -
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
-- Jared Diamond -
All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant
-- Jay Kordich -
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
-- Jean Cocteau -
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
-- Jean Cocteau -
When you plant early, you bring spring early.
-- Jean Hersey -
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.
-- Jens Jensen -
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
-- Jim Fowler -
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
-- John Abizaid -
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.
-- John Dee -
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.
-- John Muir -
The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
-- Joseph Addison -
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.
-- Juan Manuel Santos -
When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.
-- Judy Woodruff -
My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
-- Karl Blossfeldt -
The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree,
-- Ken Caldeira -
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
-- Kenneth Lay -
Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.
-- Kenny Ausubel -
Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.
-- Kris Carr -
I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
-- Lee Trevino -
If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
-- Lee Trevino -
The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.
-- Lorenz Oken -
Plants are as responsive to thought as children.
-- Luther Burbank -
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
-- Lynn Margulis -
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-- Malcolm Mclaren -
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 embryo] in the eggs of plants.
-- Marcello Malpighi
