Plant Quotes - Page 23

• Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

  Bill Mollison

  Philosophy, Animal, Thoughtful

  Bill Mollison (1979). “Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture”, Permaculture Inst of

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Cities

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• The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

  Albert Howard

  Animal, Men, Soil

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• Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.

  Jacque Fresco

  Games, Play, Long

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• You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around.  Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.  Take plant life away, we die.  And without the sun, all the plants die.  So we are connected.

  Jacque Fresco

  Oxygen, Plant Life, Looks

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• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

  Danny Hillis

  Years, Tree, Lasts

  "WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Millennium Clock Danny Hillis". www.wired.com. December 06, 1995.

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Animal, Ecosystems

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• We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

  Charlotte Mason

  Animal, Degrees, World

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• Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Army, Ideas

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• What do we plant when we plant a tree?
  A thousand things that we daily see,
  We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
  We plant the staff for our country's flag;
  We plant the shade from the hot sun free,
  We plant all these when we plant the tree.

  Henry Abbey

  Country, Tree, Sun

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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• When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.

  Thubten Chodron

  Patience, Weed, Buddhist

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• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

  Weston La Barre

  Men, Stories, Quests

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Enzymes, Workplace, Crops

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.

  Gregoire

  Mother, Morning, Coffee

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• What does he plant who plants a tree?
  He plants the friend of sun and sky;
  He plants the flag of breezes free;
  The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
  For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard -
  The treble of heaven's harmony.
  These things he plants who plants a tree.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Mother, Song, Twilight

  Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”

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• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Facts, Ancestry

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happiness, Happy, Country

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• 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

  Lying, Meat, Deceit

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• Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.

  Margery Fish

  Perfect, Special, Treasure

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• Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Live In The Moment, Quality

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• He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

  Rupert Hughes

  Done, Helping, Constructive

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.

  David M. Raup

  Animal, Past, Numbers

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• One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rain, Garden, Wind

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