Plant Quotes - page 2

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. View quote
Saskya Pandita
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. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos
We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands. View quote
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. View quote
Earl Nightingale
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. View quote
Mike Rogers
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. View quote
Orville Redenbacher
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant. View quote
Robert Fortune
I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream! View quote
Tove Jansson
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. (Michael Pollan)
Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses. View quote
Dannie Abse
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture; especially, a bread grain; next in value to bread is oil. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity. View quote
Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. View quote
Norman Borlaug
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting. View quote
Freddie Mercury
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy. View quote
Emil Cioran
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. (Isaac Barrow)
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants. View quote
William Cobbett
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. View quote
Ani DiFranco