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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
P. J. O'Rourke
People
Fear
Vegetables
Plant
Insist
Own
Dig
Fragrant
Bath
Pretty
Lawn
Dirty
Instead
Smelly
Californians
Up
Shop
Getting
Anything
Body
Use
Who
Growing
For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Health
Good
Better
Plant
Thought
Own
Energy
I Feel
Eat
My Own
Feel
Soon
Boundless
Going
Diet
Really
Based
Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.
Monty Don
Plant
Has-Been
Been
Gradual
Going
Process
Breeding
Millennia
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
Man
Plant
Will
Build
Field
Farm
Proportion
Never
He
House
Fairest
Well
Him
Knows
Another
Foretell
May
Sow
Cannot
Fruits
Inhabit
Who
Gather
Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Work
Plant
Parents
Seed
Habits
Hearts
Children
Work Ethic
Ethic
Should
Deeply
As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.
George Monbiot
Animal
Plant
Young
Wild
Able
Delighted
Adult
Almost
Identify
Child
Any
Young Adult
Being
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
Henry David Thoreau
Plant
Half
Distant
Visited
Exactly
Opened
Particular
Know
Within
Five
Times
Often
Might
Fortnight
Miles
Dozen
Four
Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.
M. S. Swaminathan
Health
Plant
Soil
Organic
Other
Promoted
Like
Methods
Provided
Effective
Improve
Tobacco
Us
Farming
Help
Pesticides
Earlier
Need
Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and plant healthcare for higher yields.
M. S. Swaminathan
Plant
Soil
Important
Become
Revolution
Input
Output
Higher
Healthcare
Providing
Yields
Green
Therefore
Technologies
Needed
A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives you a plant, you stick it in the ground and somehow it never presses the trigger. There is no intimacy.
Monty Don
You
Plant
Intimacy
Trigger
Somehow
Someone
Gives
Never
Taking
Know
Stick
Without
How
Years
Much
Really
Notice
Ground
Grown
The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.
Roddy Llewellyn
Plant
Trees
Posterity
Only
The Only Thing
Thing
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