Top 100 Quotes About A Plant
#1. 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.
#3. My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a big fan of meat alternatives, so I can still have my chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans, but I just have the chicken from a plant-based thing.
Kathy Freston
#4. Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
#5. The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#6. All the explanations proposed seem to be
only partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.
Carl Sagan
#7. Where there are no changes there is no life. A plant has to change to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Nan Fairbrother
#9. A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#10. It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.
Dalai Lama
#11. If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it.
Rick Warren
#12. There was a difference between eating healthy and eating in hopes of one day becoming a plant.
Nicole Williams
#13. 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.
Mark Bittman
#14. If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
Victor Hugo
#15. But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.
Charles Darwin
#16. The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#17. All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato ... It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.
Ernest Holmes
#18. Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced
true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
Charlotte Bronte
#19. Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle
#20. I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
Victoria Moran
#23. If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
Lee Trevino
#25. Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.
Ellsworth Kelly
#26. Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you're the fucking criminal.
Joe Rogan
#27. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Anonymous
#28. But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.
Bodhidharma
#29. But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
Nathanael West
#31. My plant is probably dead."
Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?"
I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.
J.A. Redmerski
#32. And do you really think someone's going to look at you and say, 'Hmm, I think that girl's a plant'?
Aprilynne Pike
#33. What is this?"
"Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates."
Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.
Deb Caletti
#34. You don't have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!
Kris Carr
#35. Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late
Jill Tweedie
#36. What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Donald C. Peattie
#38. If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.
Rene Redzepi
#39. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret
#40. The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
Thomas Huxley
#41. Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
#42. No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!
Matthew McConaughey
#43. We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.
Herbert Spencer
#44. Live like a man, fuck like an animal and die like a plant.
Claire Amber
#46. Eating raw was like getting a Ph.D. in a plant-based diet - hard work, but worth it.
Scott Jurek
#47. If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.
Neal Boortz
#48. A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.
Jeff Cox
#49. Let's start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
T. Colin Campbell
#50. A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#51. What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. After I hung up I felt completed, the way I always did after talking to her, like a plant that had been watered.
Robert B. Parker
#53. The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.
Aaron Shepard
#54. One day is not enough to watch a tree, one life is not enough to love a tree.
I wonder when i see a new leaf, it was like a new born baby come and meet the world; I feel great to see a plant bearing fruits, it was like a mother carrying her child during her pregnancy period
Karthikeyan V
#55. This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.
Jimmy Fallon
#57. I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world ... plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.
Edward R. Tufte
#58. A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#59. Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.
Goswami Kriyananda
#60. Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
Barbara Damrosch
#61. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
#62. If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.
Janet Macunovich
#63. Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.
Katherine Mansfield
#65. I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
Gordon Lightfoot
#66. There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
C. G. Jung
#67. A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.
Roger Scruton
#68. By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.
Horst Rechelbacher
#69. God, think of the great men that have nibbled on me, and now I'm nothing but a snack for a virus - something that can't even decide if it's a plant or an animal.
Robert Patrick
#70. A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. So this was what having friends involved. Maybe I should just get a pet rock or something. A plant, maybe. Anything incapable of answering back. Once
Kylie Scott
#72. In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. They are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted.
A.A. Buhlmann
#74. You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.
Swami Vivekananda
#75. ...that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
John Galsworthy
#76. We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
Janet Macunovich
#77. You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
#78. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
Jimmy Page
#79. Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn't just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant's DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt.
Kenneth Eade
#81. So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.
Terry Pratchett
#82. Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
Rachel Carson
#83. Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that the plant is high in glucose, which meant that it would offer us lots of energy.
Cameron Diaz
#84. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
Benjamin Disraeli
#86. If our faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.
Billy Graham
#87. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows
Doug Larson
#88. A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#89. Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#91. A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied
Erin Hunter
#92. Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.
Orison Swett Marden
#93. her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
Thomas Hardy
#94. He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.
George Eliot
#95. Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.
Nicholas Evans
#96. To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'Rourke
#97. The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
Danny Boyle
#98. The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
Ramana Maharshi
#99. After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.
Louis Pasteur
#100. Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away.
Jamil Ahmad
