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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.
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- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter's wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting rid of all the food I was eating and going to this plant based diet it did take those few days to actually feel better, but when it got to the beginning of the third week I felt so good.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
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.