Plant Quotes - Page 33

• I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

  Maria Ressa

  Mom, Hard, I Can

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• After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Vegetables, Preparation, Violence

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Thinking, Car, Constructs

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• Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Moving, Essence, People

  Pablo Amaringo (2014). “Ayahuasca Visions”, CreateSpace

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• I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.

  George Harrison

  Party, Flower, Home

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• The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.

  Piet Oudolf

  Flower, Skeletons, Important

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• Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Flirting, Water, Rose

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1852). “Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel”, p.78

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• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Death, Children, Spring

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• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

  Tom Standage

  Coffee, East, Spices

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• For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

  Empedocles

  Boys, Sea, Bird

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• To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

  Stanley Crawford

  Dream, Garden, Independence

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, UNM Press

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• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Eight, Interesting

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• The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

  Chanakya

  Rain, Ocean, Animal

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mistake, Humorous, Errors

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• In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.

  Leo Lionni

  Exercise, Reality, Garden

  Leo Lionni (1977). “Parallel botany”, Random House Inc

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• The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

  Octavio Paz

  Mother, School, Reality

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.25, Grove Press

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• Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

  Albert Hofmann

  Animal, Reality, Magnificence

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

  Issey Miyake

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, 'A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.' Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, Children

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

  Charles Dickens

  Teacher, Spring, Ignorance

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising All His Wills and His Ways, with an Historical Record of what He Did, and what He Didn't ...”, p.245

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• We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

  Ted Leonsis

  Fashion, Media, Looks

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• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates.

  Richard Leakey

  Taken, Past, Garden

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• The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

  Van Jones

  Life, Fall, Animal

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  Edward Bernays

  Order, Waiting, Demand

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wall, Attitude

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