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• The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Two, Climate, Coal

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

  Wangari Maathai

  Tree, Climate, Seeds

  Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.12, Lantern Books

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• Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

  May Sarton

  Life, Music, Flower

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

  Issey Miyake

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

  Helen Clark

  Issues, Migrants, Borders

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• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  Vandana Shiva

  Patents, Use, Corporations

  "No Patents on Seeds, a Handbook for Activists: Why and How to Fight the Patent and Seed Act". Booklet, 2005.

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• Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Water, Car

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• Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

  Freddie Mercury

  Nice, Singers, My Favorite

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  Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  Freddie Mercury

  Success, Time, Greatness

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

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• The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

  Joan Halifax

  Roots, Self, Wind

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

  Joseph Addison

  Food, Cooking, Tea

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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• And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Tea, May, Littles

  "The History of Pendennis".

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• The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Party, Two, Feet

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• Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

  Rumi

  Journey, Fruit, Bears

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Giving, Way

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.

  Luce Irigaray

  Clouds, Air, Self

  Luce Irigaray (2000). “To be two”, Athlone Press

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• Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.  Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Perfection, Our Love

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.85, Liturgical Press

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• If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Flower, Years, Tree

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• Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together.

  William Bradford

  Christian, Country, Kings

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.76, Rutgers University Press

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• My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Jobs, Land, Childhood

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• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

  Thomas Becket

  Teaching, Water, People

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• I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Garden, Giving, Mind

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