#plants

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #plants




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

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.


Jim DeMint


#congressman #cut #every #getting #going

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.


Freeman Dyson


#finish #human #humans #important #important thing

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.


Robert Fortune


#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.


Robert Fortune


#better #certainly #chinese #dwarf #extremely

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.


Robert Fortune


#fact #first #i #my own #observation

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

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.


Malcolm Turnbull


#australia #change #climate #climate change #construct

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