Perennial Plants Quotes

#1. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Margaret Atwood

#3. It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.

Jochen Zeitz

#4. We have forensic psychiatrists who try to draw a line between those who are sick and those who are criminal, and they bend and twist the truth to make it fit into their world of theoretical models.

Jo Nesbo

#5. I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Paul Auster

#6. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

#7. Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.

Jonathan Kirsch

#8. I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

Betty White

#9. Not Mr. Rasmussen. Call me Dom. I really think we should be on a first-name basis, since you know that I strip off my suit every night and get into bed wearing nothing at all.".

Avery Flynn

#10. Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

Bill Mollison

#11. [The] concentration of our food supply is also a national security threat. A few dedicated terrorists with a crude map could, in a few days, wipe out most of the food supply of this country. We were much less vulnerable when farm animals were dispersed all over the country.

Ken Midkiff

#12. Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Wendell Berry

#13. I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.

Bernie Sanders

#14. The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

Wendell Berry