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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

  Tobias Wolff

  Home, Boys, Light

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• Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your...

  Rick Riordan

  Stars, Cupcakes, Ugly

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• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Roots, Tangled, Dying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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• Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Cutting, Winter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.400, Ballantine Books

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• Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fear, Looks

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales". Book by Vanna Bonta. Chapter: "The Enemy", 1989.

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• Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Heart, Going Away

  Stephen King (2016). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Substance, Benefits

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• You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Class, Guy

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