Plant Quotes - Page 15

• A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Broken, Sun

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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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• There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it.

  Di Morrissey

  Country, Animal, Becoming

  Di Morrissey (2011). “The Silent Country”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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• I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Book, Eye, Hands

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• This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

  Lauren Oliver

  Tree, Encounters, Answers

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• 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

  Life, Children, Negative

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I’m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other’s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad’s eyes.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Dad, Drinking

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.186, Crown/Archetype

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• It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

  Neil Gaiman

  Funeral, Pretty Woman, Ankles

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pride, Intelligent, Peaceful

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Book, Phones, People

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

  Suzanne Collins

  Tricky

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plants Growing, Tree, Shade

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.150

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• It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

  James Madison

  Self, Germs, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.219

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• It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hatred, Causes, Tools

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.16, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life, Men, Knowing

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.51, Jester House Publishing

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• You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Licking, Treatment

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.169, Penguin

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• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

  Janette Rallison

  Hurt, Arizona, Wanted

  Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Business, Years

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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• "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.

  Elisha Gray

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”, W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax : S.F. Huestis, [19--?]

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• All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Animal, Two

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Diversity

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