Plant Quotes - Page 10

• Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Air, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1162, Manonmani Publishers

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• In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

  Hal Borland

  Symbolism, Apples, Happiness And Love

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• Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

  Rachel Caine

  Grandma, Thinking, Waiting

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Jobs, Moving, Rivers

  "Amazing Spider-Man #537". Comics by J. Michael Straczynski, December 2006.

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• Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Animal, Rivers, Tree

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• Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?

  Robin Hobb

  Mother, Children, Greatness

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.297, Spectra

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tree, Example, Needs

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

  John Fowles

  Views, Ideas, People

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Opportunity, Men

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• Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

  Erlend Loe

  Animal, Together, World

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

  Rick Riordan

  War, Rifles, United Front

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• If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Idols, Failing, Christ

  "Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down". Book by Timothy Keller, 2010.

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• And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

  David Archuleta

  Tree, Remember, Plant A Tree

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.333, Penguin

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• Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• ‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

  Umera Ahmed

  Brother, Sky, Differences

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• Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Being Yourself, Integrity, Real

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.190, New World Library

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• A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

  Joanne Harris

  Men, Numbers, Tree

  Joanne Harris (2008). “Runemarks”, p.88, Random House

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• The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Break Through, Unity, Bud

  "The Phenomenology of Mind".

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• My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Names, Looks, Georgia

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• How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Tree, Leader

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• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Wheat, Potatoes

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016

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• I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?

  John Green

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

  Diana Rowland

  Fall, Men, Eating

  Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.58, Penguin

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• Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Grace

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