#plant

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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.


John Ciardi


#bear #bolt #good #hope #idea

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#longing #minds #nature #our #planted

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.


Jean Cocteau


#artist #asking #discuss #his #horticulture

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.


Dan Flavin


#broken #composition #could #crucial #down

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?


Asa Gray


#any #area #assume #continuous #evidence

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.


George Grey


#australia #could #description #every #i

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.


Tom Hanks


#been #births #born #consciousness #generation

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


#another #because #before #either #failure

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.


Christopher Hitchens


#build #children #damn #die #done

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.


Bonnie Hunt


#hang in there #her #i #i think #just