Plant Quotes - Page 10

• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

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• You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

  Tobias Wolff

  Home, Boys, Light

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• You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Children, Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.896, Bantam

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• Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

  Melina Marchetta

  Team, Yeah, Great Team

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• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Life, Science, Animal

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• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Roots, Tangled, Dying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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• As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.311, University of Georgia Press

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• Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fear, Looks

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales". Book by Vanna Bonta. Chapter: "The Enemy", 1989.

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• I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?

  John Green

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

  Diana Rowland

  Fall, Men, Eating

  Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.58, Penguin

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• I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

  Rick Riordan

  Rubies, Hades

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• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

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• Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fighting, Ravens, Two

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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• Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Healing, Woods

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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• The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Garden, Giving

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 20, 2011

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• When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Broken

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.32, SCB Distributors

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• New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn’t. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

  Bill Maher

  Baby, Teenager, Animal

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.221, Penguin

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• I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Rifles, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.77, Delacorte Press

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• Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Life, New Year

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sweet

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• Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Birthday, Sweet, Disappointment

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• You cannot choose your battlefield,
  The Gods do that for you;
  But you can plant a standard
  Where a standard never flew.

  Nathalia Crane

  Business, Society, Doe

  "The Singing Crow And Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("The Colors"), 1926.

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Giving, Age

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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