#plants

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #plants




Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.


Asa Gray


#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.


Asa Gray


#become #before #best #definition #differentiated

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.


John Harrison


#build #fine #just #material #organic

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.


Zora Neale Hurston


#always #like #live #look #people

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.


Muhammad Iqbal


#divine #faithful #minerals #only #orders

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.


Gray Davis


#building #california #companies #conservation #doing

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


#counting #down #end #flawed #getting

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.


Anthony Trollope


#found #grow #how #ivy #know

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.


E. O. Wilson


#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.


E. O. Wilson


#exploring #field #get #into #kinds