Plant Quotes - Page 3

• What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Animal, Mouths

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

  Jens Jensen

  Tree, Stand Alone, Landscaping

  Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.42, JHU Press

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• Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Creativity, Creative

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 13, 2011

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• A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

  George Nakashima

  Nature, Tree, Humanity

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• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Sunset, Kissing

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254

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• Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Ideas, Fruit

  "How Oprah’s Growing Healthier — And You Can Too" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2013.

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Teacher, Happy New Year

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• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Flower, Garden, Mind

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Tree, Doe, Delight

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.56, eKitap Projesi

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
  If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
  Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Nature, Spring, Animal

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

  Wallace Thurman

  Life, People, Novelists

  Wallace Thurman (1979). “Infants of the spring: a novel”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Speak, Horticulture

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• I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Stars, Animal, Moon

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• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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• If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

  Victor Hugo

  Stones, Sensitive, Humans

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Thinking, People, Tree

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• Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information driven by energetics. And the energetics is operated by the matter, which has manifested here. This is where you and I come in. The human body is matter. Plant material, and this tea I am drinking, is matter.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Drinking, Intelligent, Tea

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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