#plants

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #plants




Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.


Luigi Pirandello


#beasts #does #every #give #his

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.


Jim Fowler


#alligators #areas #being #down #father

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.


A. J. Jacobs


#eat #foods #mostly #much #paraphrase

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.


Gustav Krupp


#certain #changeover #circles #could #expect

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.


Albert Schweitzer


#ethical #fellow #fellow men #help #him

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.


Richard Brinsley Sheridan


#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith


#man #plant #plants #posterity #tree

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.


Luther Burbank


#attention #children #had #jungle #living

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.


John Greenleaf Whittier


#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

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