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A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

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.

And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

A weed is a plant out of place.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

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.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

Eat a plant-based diet - which act like prebiotic and probiotics in the gut.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

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.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

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.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.