Best 338 quotes in «plant quotes» category

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Plant your love and let it grow.

Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

The future is about a plant-based diet.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.’

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.