Quotes with plant

  • A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
  • A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
  • A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
  • Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
  • I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
  • Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
  • So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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  • Alexander Smith A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Og Mandino Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Robert Louis Stephenson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
    Robert Louis Stephenson
     
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  • Confucius 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
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Carolus Linnaeus A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
    Carolus Linnaeus
     
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  • Doug Larson A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • B. W. Powe Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ronald Reagan All the wastes for a year from a nuclear power plant could be stored under a desk
    Burlington Free Press, 15-02-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Ransom Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Asa Gray But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
    Saskya Pandita
     
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