Plant Quotes

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

~ Debbie Ford

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

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

~ Kevin Kelly

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

~ Ronald Reagan

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

~ Elon Musk

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

~ John James Audubon

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

~ Luther Burbank

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.

~ Nikki Reed

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

~ Michael Greger

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

~ Ed Begley

I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

~ Lauren Bowles

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

~ Guru Nanak

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

~ Edmund White

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

~ Mike Rogers

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this.

~ Robert Zubrin

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

~ Roberto Burle Marx

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

~ Carolus Linnaeus

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

~ Bootsy Collins

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

~ Dorothy Malone

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

~ Lee Hall

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

~ Melissa Mccarthy

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

~ Jean Cocteau

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

~ George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

~ George Washington

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.

~ Noam Chomsky

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.

~ Roy Blunt

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

~ Dan Quayle

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

~ Michael Pollan

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

~ Stewart Udall

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

~ George Washington

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

~ Confucius