Best 338 quotes in «plant quotes» category

Well we're waiting here in Allentown, For the Pennsylvania we never found, For the promises our teachers gave, If we worked hard, If we behaved... So the graduations hang on the wall, But they never really helped us at all, No they never taught us what was real, Iron and coke, And chromium steel, And we're waiting here in Allentown... But they've taken all the coal from the ground, And the union people crawled away...

Whatever a man sow, shall he reap.

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?

What seeds are you planting?

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

When it is time to sow, sow and when it is time to harvest, you will harvest. Obey this rule.

When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.

When weed whispers, "eat something", into your alcoholic brain, know that you were just saved by a plant.

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.

Work on making yourself a complete being. Though you were born with the physical traits of one sex, you possess the characteristics of both - including those of plants and animals. You were created as a nearly complete universal being, but with flaws. True perfection can only be achieved when one recognizes that they need to combine their oneness with others and nature. Only then is one considered complete.

Working in garden is like digging knowledge from the earth.

Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.

You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!

You must bloom wherever God plants you.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

You were born with the seeds of success and happiness, but nobody else but yourself could plant them in your life.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

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

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

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

...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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

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

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

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

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

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.