- Belonging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plants Quotes
Most Famous Plants Quotes of All Time!
These Life quotes claim trees and plants somehow start to resemble the people who live alongside them over time.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
- Faithful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.
Others recall wartime plant imports authorized for postwar use, or describe writing and Gardening the same way, diving in without a tight plan and trusting instinct over a strict Food or garden blueprint.