- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plant Quotes
Most Famous Plant Quotes of All Time!
Several quotes here treat planting as proof of real effort, arguing that talk means nothing until you actually dig, water, and nurture something to survive. Explore more growth-themed lines in Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
- Healthcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and plant healthcare for higher yields.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new plant types attracted media attention immediately.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
Others turn planting into celebration, choosing a flowering tree to mark a happy occasion, while a closing thought reminds us that whoever sows a field may never see who benefits from the harvest. See more in Life quotes and Nature quotes.