Plant Quotes - page 4

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. View quote
Karl Marx
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. View quote
Ralph Merkle
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. View quote
Albert Einstein
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! View quote
Edward Abbey
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species. View quote
Adam Smith
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. (Josh Billings)
Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks. View quote
Josh Billings
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? View quote
Rick Riordan
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your... View quote
Rick Riordan
I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. View quote
Rick Riordan
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits. View quote
Andrew Weil
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. View quote
Richard Preston
Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you? View quote
Anthony Horowitz
A weed is a plant out of place. View quote
Jim Thompson
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated. (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now! View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods. View quote
Michael Greger