Plant Quotes - Page 31

• I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Ideas, Feelings, Bathroom

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

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• You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

  Chinua Achebe

  Greatness, Men, Yams

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.58, Anchor

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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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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• We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Incentives, Normal, Investment

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.88, Best Books on

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• Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Ocean, Animal, Air

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann says CO2 is 'a natural byproduct of nature' by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 28, 2009.

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• What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Oil, Way

  "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

  George Ripley

  Soul, Growth, May

  George Ripley (1836). “Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe”, p.42

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• 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

  Animal, Tree, Alive

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Criticism, Resentment

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.201, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Drinking, Animal, Water

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• Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Tree, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview With Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008.

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• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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• If you were charged with fixing the U.S. auto industry, how would you do it?
  
  The guys who run the auto companies are out of touch with their customers and their employees. They ride to work in their limousines. They go up in their elevators and lock themselves in their offices. They don't walk out into the plants. They wouldn't even drive in the neighborhoods where their employees live. They give themselves big bonuses when the company isn't making any money. I'd make them get involved with the people who are building the cars. They've got to become real people.

  Ken Hendricks

  Running, Business, Real

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• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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• A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Tree, Doe

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.258

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• The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

  Margaret Fuller

  Learning, Garden, Years

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.384, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Heart, Seeds

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.

  James Hansen

  Animal, Years, Generations

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Use plants to bring life

  Douglas Wilson

  Garden, Gardening, Use

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• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

  Clive Anderson

  Home, Garden, Thinking

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