219 Plant Quotes for You to Enjoy

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. Christopher Hitchens

You Plant Will Build Before Expectation Damn Tree Hoping Outlive Fact House Knowing Well Make Sure How Die Done Human Just Children In Fact Want Dying Them Human Species Species

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. Emma Bull

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert

Love Hope Love Is Plant Everything Ruins Springtime Which Even

My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me. Henry Winkler

Me Happy Plant Spider Took Alive Out City Angeles New Days Feet Smuggled Los Los Angeles Aunt Germany York Moved New York New York City Happy Days Cutting Her Coffin

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months. Jimmy Page

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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. Joe Barton

Plant Seriously Power Become Accident States Kind Civilian No-One Power Plant Because Died Any Ill United United States Nuclear Nuclear Power

Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade. Lee Hsien Loong

Today Generation Plant Build Enjoy Saved Too Trees Our Must Shade Daughters Invested Sons Forefathers Current Just Enjoying

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out. Maeve Binchy

Buy You Library Change Garden Old Plant Bird Will Blessed Clothes Books Out Window Thrift Rather Take Bag Box Been Friends Than Get Store Old Clothes Them Your Who Fill Things Bring

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. Thomas Becket

God Faith People Water Matter Plant Plants Waters Unless Harvest Has-Been Gives He Spread Been His So Many People Far Teachings Planted Who Many Agree Peter Now Needed

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch. Adele

Love Time Be Happy Happy Plant Nice Enough Enough Time Relationships Kids Married Constantly Record Some Write Vegetable Fail Know Am Least Patch Get Get Married Then Working Now

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Truth You Together Speak Plant Spider Made Mouth String Secrets Inside Web Drink Take Bottle Cactus Between Like Sticks Leaves Mexico Behind Want Your Deep Shows

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth. Alex Steffen

Animal Water Plant Soil Will Weather Long Diversity Pay Our Resources Air Earth Mineral Stay Clean Clean Air Dividends Survives May Human Predictable Race Human Race Even Species Extend

Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down. Aliko Dangote

Plant Example Down Our Exchange Vegetable Had For Example Operations Foreign Refinery Oil Where Processing Available Cutting Shut

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species. Andrew H. Knoll

Life You Animal Walk Plant Plants Will Diversity Animals Types Hundred Say Several Those Out Conspicuous Thousand See Beach Fair Perhaps Most Go Huge Woods Forms Organisms Certainly Plants And Animals Species Million

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops. Antoine Predock

You Survival Together Protection Plant Wind Nurse Some Crops Direction Study Prime How Governed Materials Southwest Sustenance Little Communities

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. Asa Gray

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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. Asa Gray

Life Animal Plant Definite Scale Throughout Shape Simpler Individuals Spoken Existence Low Whole Beings Specialized Sufficiently

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. Barbara Kingsolver

Myself Animal Plant Animals Think Anything Among Biologist

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. Barbara McClintock

Reward Problems Plant Unfair Pleasure Responses Solve Seem Having Over Years Person Might Then Much Asking Specific Watching

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something. Brooke Burke

You Plant Believe Something Take Lot Cultures Bury

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Carolus Linnaeus

Gardening Plant Tree Another Dies Place

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