Plant Quotes - Page 29

• Having fun unleashes creativity. It is one of the seeds you plant to get ideas

  Jack Foster

  Fun, Creativity, Ideas

  Jack Foster, Larry Corby (2007). “How to Get Ideas”, p.27, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.

  Wendell Berry

  Husband, Animal, Land

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.75, Counterpoint Press

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• Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.

  Sonia Choquette

  Flower, Sunshine, Self

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Jun 08, 2013

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• As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.

  David Abram

  Animal, Talking, Rivers

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• Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

  Amy Poehler

  Book, Feet, Self

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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Knowing, Tree, Meaning Of Life

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• It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

  Louise Hay

  Order, Giving, Rotten

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 04, 2009

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• At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

  Dean Ornish

  Night, People, Red

  FaceBook post by Dean Ornish, MD from Mar 12, 2012

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• Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Rebel, Flags

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• A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Encouragement, Children, Water

  Rudolf Dreikurs, Don Sr. Dinkmeyer (2013). “Encouraging Children to Learn”, p.3, Routledge

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• Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

  Kris Carr

  Light, Folks

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• The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

  Lorenz Oken

  Science, Cells, Mouths

  Lorenz Oken (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.264

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• Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

  Gray Davis

  Lines, Flaws, Ends

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  California, Firsts, Flaws

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• Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

  William Bligh

  Tents, Caution, Shore

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22

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• The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Cells, Hands

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• Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Roots, Vices, Facts

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• Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Rivers, Tree

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• For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Believe, Healing, World

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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• A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Tree, Negativity, Meditation

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• Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

  David C.H. Austin

  Flower, Rose, Growth

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• Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They’re called campaign promises.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, Years, Brain

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