207 Plants Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space. Ruskin Bond

Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms. Ryan Bethencourt

Plants Thrive Animals Building Beginning Living Biology Tools Our Civilization Allow Environment Since Altered Shelter Organisms Plants And Animals Living Organisms Humans

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. Sean Bean

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world. Sean Scully

Art World Water Plants Changes Way Relentless Constant Through Shape Like Geography Just Movement Transformative Sea Works

With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds. Selman Waksman

Simple Matter Plants Organic Living Inorganic Out Bacteria Compounds Only Exception Green Forms Capable Planet Elements

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. Shilpa Shetty

Love Time Gardening Garden Plants Nice Bit Totally About Properly More Adore Take Long-Lasting Maintenance Particular Look Until Am Up Hands Just Fancy Low Plan Ask Then Basic Flowers

The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending American coal production, we are merely transferring jobs out of the U.S. Stephen Moore

Plants Building Own Our Hundreds Complex Out Jobs India Merely Industrial American Stop Transferring China China And India Cut Planet Production Coal Using Even Zero Save

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! Susan Orlean

Me Garden Space Plants Spring Sight Seem Gives Writers Missed Calling Empty None Editor Block Equivalent Beds Quite Them Might Much Choose Many Among Right

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. Sylvia Earle

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus

Life Nature Generation Behavior Plants Consider Distinctive Characters Must General Point Point Of View Course Conditions Mode View Whole External

Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. Thomas P.M. Barnett

Natural Plants Power National Natural Disasters Guard Defense Enough Having Generate Power Plants Red Days Disasters Beyond Force National Guard Any Requirements Homeland Code Lives Nuclear Nuclear Power Save

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them. Tom Hanks

Time People Plants Animals Live Enjoy Market Able About Something Taking Protect Protecting Around Off Same Same Time Where While Them Land Should Plants And Animals Basic

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. William Bligh

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts. will.i.am

While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life. George Monbiot

Life Food Plant Plants Will Long Animals Argument Before Rage Our Neither About Soon New Come Most Make Nor Versus New Technologies Irrelevant Diets While Them Technologies

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. Salman Rushdie

Man Old Plants Insects Somewhere Mountains Believe Living Border Cave Wandering Old Man Us Many Bin Image

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks. George Monbiot

Good You Plants Rich Other Trees Enough Fragments Definition Find Support Particularly Climbing Covered West Forest Persist Wet Tiny Confined Where Lower Grow Flowering Britain

I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis… and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it. Steven Gundry

Plants First Honors Studied Yale Got Effect Luckily Thesis Humans

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. Barack Obama

Plants Solar Power Year Enough Solar Panels Facility Could Lifetime Generate Power Plants Over Like Make Replacing Expects Site Eight Electricity Many Each Each Year Here

Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture. Monty Don

Plants Looking Furniture Hijacked Like End Up Room Many Gardens

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly. Roy Blount, Jr.

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