Plant Quotes - Page 30

• At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

  Dean Ornish

  Night, People, Red

  FaceBook post by Dean Ornish, MD from Mar 12, 2012

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• Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Rebel, Flags

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• Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

  Kris Carr

  Light, Folks

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• The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

  Lorenz Oken

  Science, Cells, Mouths

  Lorenz Oken (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.264

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  California, Firsts, Flaws

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• Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

  William Bligh

  Tents, Caution, Shore

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22

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• Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Growth, Expansion

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.51, Best Books on

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

  Louis L'Amour

  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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• Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Roots, Vices, Facts

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• Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Rivers, Tree

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• For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Believe, Healing, World

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• 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

  Tree, Negativity, Meditation

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• Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

  David C.H. Austin

  Flower, Rose, Growth

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• Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They’re called campaign promises.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, Years, Brain

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• Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tree, World, Tomorrow

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• Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reading, Mind, Paper

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• Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

  Jessa Gamble

  Animal, Light, Cells

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love.

  Angus Buchan

  Jesus, Dust, Miracle

  Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.95, Monarch Books

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• Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

  Neil Shubin

  Party, Animal, June

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• The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

  Michio Kaku

  Block, Cities, Brain

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• It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Roots, Want, Stuff

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• When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

  Sam Trammell

  Country, Tree, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Pot, Grass

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• The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Jobs, Garden, Needs

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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