Plant Quotes - Page 18

• That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.

  James Madison

  America, Evil, Liberty

  James Madison (1906). “The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802”

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Business, Years

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• "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.

  Elisha Gray

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”, W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax : S.F. Huestis, [19--?]

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• All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Animal, Two

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Diversity

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• There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

  Justus von Liebig

  Spring, Fall, Mean

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• We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Animal, Dna, Special

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really fast, and others need pruning and care...And, finally, a song needs to move you. If it doesn't move you, it will never move anybody else.

  Corey Harris

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Feet, Boxing

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• I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Animal, Jail, People

  "What Love Looks Like". Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, orionmagazine.org. May 28, 2011.

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• I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

  Klaus Kinski

  Animal, People, Soul

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

  Neil Armstrong

  Country, Destiny, Views

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• I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

  Jerry O'Connell

  Guy, Alive, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

  Mark Bittman

  Stuff, Evidence, Overwhelming

  "How Has The American Diet Changed Over Time?". "TED Radio Hour" wuth Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 17, 2016.

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• I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

  Sean Bean

  Couple, Autumn, Tree

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• President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.

  Dan Rather

  Believe, Air, People

  "Clamoring for Kyoto" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. May 24, 2012.

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• He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.

  Dan Rather

  Eye, Volcanoes, Leader

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• You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

  Chinua Achebe

  Greatness, Men, Yams

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.58, Anchor

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Growth, Expansion

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.51, Best Books on

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• We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Incentives, Normal, Investment

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.88, Best Books on

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• Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Ocean, Animal, Air

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann says CO2 is 'a natural byproduct of nature' by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 28, 2009.

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• What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Oil, Way

  "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

  George Ripley

  Soul, Growth, May

  George Ripley (1836). “Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe”, p.42

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