Best 338 quotes in «plant quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

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

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.

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

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.

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

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 future is about a plant-based diet.

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.