#plants

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #plants




A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.


Saint Basil


#deed #deeds #friendship #fruit #gathers

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.


Mark Bittman


#ally #better #diet #easy #everyone

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.


Mark Bittman


#evidence #less #live #longer #more

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.


William Bligh


#augmented #caution #conduct #did #general

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.


William Bligh


#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.


A. Whitney Brown


#because #hate #i #i am #i love

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.


Jean Genet


#black #branches #country #deep #did

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.


Morihei Ueshiba


#also #between #books #even #everything

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.


Barbara McClintock


#find #great #great pleasure #i #intimately

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.


Gale Norton


#agree #birds #consensus #difficult #easier