207 Plants Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. Gloria Vanderbilt

Love Plants Moon Animals Stars Think Trees Fishes Connected Humans

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal

Plants Faithful Minerals Only Divine Bound Predestination Orders

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. Percy Julian

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What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture. Alex Grey

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

Plants Development Thwarted Like Overshadowed Human Nations Human Beings Beings Grow

In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals. Gregory Benford

Best Winter Plants Insects Animals Enjoy Range Temperate Developed Check Bugs Off Keeps Wide Wide Range Zone

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. James Howard Kunstler

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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? Jeremy Rifkin

Plants Insects Animals Other Birds Digest Seed Contact Come Materials Happens Land Acres Producing Products Pharmaceutical Millions Vaccines

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry. Michael Pollan

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. Nina Fedoroff

Food Change People Plants Agriculture Our Our Planet Evolution Mutations Results Almost Genetic Genetically Because Ready Causes Mixture Subjected Lot Improve Gets Which Modification Create Modified Planet Choose Radiation Things Damage Basis

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. Peter Zumthor

Me Relationship Plants Like Make Becomes Quiet Closer Company

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

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You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants. Vaclav Smil

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. Alejandro Jodorowsky

History Interior Plants Priests Were Discover Psychedelic Used Desire

Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power. Alex Honnold

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