Best 338 quotes in «plant quotes» category

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

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.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

I swear it's so easy. You don't have to have a diet mentality at all if you eat healthily, plant-based food.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

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.

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!

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

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.

Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side.

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.