Plant Quotes - Page 28

• The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

  Arthur Rock

  Years, Cost, Four

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• I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, Animal, Air

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Feet, Waiting

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• For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

  Dan Kimball

  Motivation, Church, Venture

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• Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

  Archilochus

  Heart, Men, Squares

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• Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Expression, Bridges

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Self, Agriculture

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

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• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

  Hal Borland

  Mean, Air, Blood

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• Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Littles

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• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

  Terence McKenna

  Kings, Moon, Journey

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• Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

  Nas

  Light, Gold, Cameras

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• We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Acres, Our Lives

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

  Mark Batterson

  Roots, Limits, Grows

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• A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Men, Order

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

  Brian Andreas

  Grandma, Italian, Tin Cans

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Heart, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.137, Shambhala Publications

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• We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Choices

  "Simone Weil".

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• One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

  Richard Marx

  Light, Cheesy, Rooms

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• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  John Shimkus

  Country, Illinois, Keys

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• Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

  Dr. Seuss

  Air, Giving, Water

  The Lorax (1971)

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• A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Simple, Garden, Custodians

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Tiny, Seeds, Dies

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Virtue, Known

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• Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

  Claude McKay

  Development, Grows, Humans

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