Plant Quotes - Page 19

• Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

  Joy Harjo

  Animal, Tree, Alive

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Criticism, Resentment

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.201, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Drinking, Animal, Water

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• Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Tree, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview With Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008.

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• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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• If you were charged with fixing the U.S. auto industry, how would you do it?
  
  The guys who run the auto companies are out of touch with their customers and their employees. They ride to work in their limousines. They go up in their elevators and lock themselves in their offices. They don't walk out into the plants. They wouldn't even drive in the neighborhoods where their employees live. They give themselves big bonuses when the company isn't making any money. I'd make them get involved with the people who are building the cars. They've got to become real people.

  Ken Hendricks

  Running, Business, Real

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• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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• A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Tree, Doe

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.258

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• The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

  Margaret Fuller

  Learning, Garden, Years

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.384, Rowman & Littlefield

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

  Louis L'Amour

  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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• I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Heart, Seeds

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• 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

  Animal, Years, Generations

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Use plants to bring life

  Douglas Wilson

  Garden, Gardening, Use

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• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

  Clive Anderson

  Home, Garden, Thinking

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Flower, Garden, Circles

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• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

  Tom Standage

  Coffee, East, Spices

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• For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

  Empedocles

  Boys, Sea, Bird

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• To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

  Stanley Crawford

  Dream, Garden, Independence

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, UNM Press

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• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Eight, Interesting

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• The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

  Chanakya

  Rain, Ocean, Animal

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mistake, Humorous, Errors

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• In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.

  Leo Lionni

  Exercise, Reality, Garden

  Leo Lionni (1977). “Parallel botany”, Random House Inc

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• The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

  Octavio Paz

  Mother, School, Reality

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.25, Grove Press

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