#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

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.


Tom Allen


#national #plants #pollution #power #power plants

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.


Georg Brandes


#did #enjoying #i #life #me

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.


John W. Gardner


#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203)


Cynthia Sass


#body-weight #chemicals #insects #natural-defenses #nutrients

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.


Conan O'Brien


#charlie #charlie sheen #confirming #dating #doctors

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.


Austin O'Malley


#clears #harvest #imagination #plants #reason

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.


Soundarya


#flowers #garden #hardly #i #i do

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.


Eliot Spitzer


#bribery #capital #cared #company #corporate

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?


David Suzuki


#always #am #away #been #blown