Plant Quotes - Page 8

• The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Air, Soul, Atmosphere

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39

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• Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Heaven, Hell

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• Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

  John Updike

  Men, Light, Overcoming

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

  Chris Robinson

  Singing, Fans, Bigs

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• We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Rain, Fall

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• I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

  Orson Scott Card

  Long, Enough, Seeds

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Self Reliance, Passionate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.450, Library of America

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• Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Determination, Heart, Emotional

  Iyanla Vanzant (2000). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind”, Simon and Schuster

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• The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Animal, Self

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Distance, Inspiration

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Garden, Rose

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Sunset

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Bud, Care, May

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• People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.

  Michael Crichton

  Wall, People, Defense

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Science, Animal, Differences

  Karl Landsteiner (2013). “The Specificity of Serological Reactions”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Italian, Desire

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Rocks, Water

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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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• 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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• The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Garden, Law

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• Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level of brown liquor - an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow - it is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it's delicious.

  Adam Rogers

  Alcohol, Age, World

  "POLITICS ENVIRONMENT FOOD MEDIA CRIME & JUSTICE PHOTOS INVESTIGATIONS MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBE DONATE I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview With Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Garden, Landscape, Composition

  Christopher Tunnard (2014). “Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press

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