Top 100 Quotes About Plants
#1. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#2. Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.
Scott Cunningham
#3. God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
#4. A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Laozi
#5. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,
it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Ellsworth Huntington
#7. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.
Alasdair Gray
#8. I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.
Zoe Helene
#9. Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
Alan Cinis
#10. How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!
John Armstrong
#11. Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
Lady Bird Johnson
#12. The absence of suffocating humidity and carnivorous plants was appreciated.
Brandon Mull
#13. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.
John Bruna
#14. Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
Terence McKenna
#15. When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.
Wayne Dyer
#16. There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit in it's shade.
Sandra Dallas
#17. Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
Charles Darwin
#18. Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
Allan Savory
#19. The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.
Eliot Cowan
#20. The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard.
Nicholson Baker
#21. 200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.
Yuval Noah Harari
#22. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
Anonymous
#23. The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
Jennifer Granholm
#24. I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.
Michael Pollan
#25. From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
Willa Cather
#26. The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.
Jack Kerouac
#27. New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
Nina Fedoroff
#28. Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
Donald Trump
#29. In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
John Muir
#30. There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
Lady Bird Johnson
#31. If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.
Allison Mackie
#32. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.
Jerome K. Jerome
#34. If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look - satisfied with nature's endowment. Only human beings are eager to change what nature has given them.
Betty Jamie Chung
#36. For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither.
May Sarton
#37. If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.
Mark Bittman
#38. I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
#39. In Nature, things are broken with a purpose - clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants ... so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose ...
Debashis Dey
#40. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.
Dennis McKenna
#41. The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.
Naoto Kan
#42. Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?
Plutarch
#44. A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.
Zicheng Hong
#45. Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler
#47. art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people's hearts
Taha Muhammad Ali
#49. You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
Eddie Vedder
#50. After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
#51. it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just
Ellen Cooney
#52. Ripe strawberries hung from the little plants, row after row. They gleamed like baubles, bright and red among the leaves, weighing down their stalks.
Odo Hirsch
#53. I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...
~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#54. I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
Natasha Trethewey
#55. I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.
Drew Chadwick
#56. When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.
Demetri Martin
#57. His eyes move to my lips, and I know he's thinking the same thing; I can feel it in the way the air charges between us. I can almost taste him half an inch away, can feel the way the tiny hairs on my skin lift and reach for him like plants seeking the sunlight.
Amie Kaufman
#58. Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Richard Leakey
#59. Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere.
Oswald Chambers
#60. In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#61. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
Joy Harjo
#62. There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.
Victor Hugo
#63. There is rising concern about pesticides, used on plants for food, causing endocrine disruption, meaning that the residual pesticides appear to be changing hormone levels in our populations.
Daniel G. Amen
#64. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Red Auerbach
#65. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
#66. One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#67. George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
Adam McKay
#68. A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#69. The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.
R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
#70. Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
Hayao Miyazaki
#71. It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
Nancy Roman
#72. Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn't always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it.
Ilona Andrews
#73. On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.
Shirley Jackson
#74. The plants have taught me they don't like to be potted too long - it's very restrictive to them so I would plant them outside if you could, or in a green house.
Doreen Virtue
#75. Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
Pearl S. Buck
#76. The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.
Vincent Van Gogh
#77. I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes
#78. 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
#79. Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
Alex Steffen
#80. I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants,
Malcolm Wells
#81. I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?
Eve Ensler
#82. I try to muscle my way past but Eli's right-hand man, Pigpen, plants himself in front of me like the towering sack of testosterone and annoyance he is.
Katie McGarry
#83. Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith
#84. Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles Fourier
#85. If a fool plants a beautiful garden, is he still a fool?
Marty Rubin
#86. We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.
Hassan Rouhani
#87. The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.
Harriet Lerner
#88. Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
C.S. Lewis
#89. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Anonymous
#90. Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.
Gerald Durrell
#91. I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#92. I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Celia Thaxter
#93. The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94. I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.
Klaus Lackner
#95. All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
Lynn Margulis
#96. Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
Jim Costa
#97. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
#98. It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to learn how to behave. To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."
Talal Asad
#99. Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.
Jim Butcher
#100. May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
Camille Flammarion
