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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.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Quotes by A. J. Jacobs

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

Quotes by Wilson Greatbatch

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Quotes by William Cowper

Animals Quotes

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...

Quotes by William Bligh

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.

Quotes by William Bligh

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing...

Quotes by will.i.am

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill...

Quotes by Wil S. Hylton

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

Quotes by W. Averell Harriman

Food Quotes

I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the...

Quotes by Victoria Aveyard

You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to...

Quotes by Vaclav Smil

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild...

Quotes by Tristram Stuart

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Quotes by Tom Hanks

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Quotes by Tom Carper

Gardening Quotes

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

Quotes by Tom Allen

Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.

Quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Quotes by Thomas Moore

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

Quotes by Theophrastus

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

Quotes by Terence McKenna

Life Quotes

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Plants quotes page cover?
It ranges from a poetic observation that trees and plants come to resemble the people who live with them, to more technical references about industrial plants and power generation. The mix of the natural and the mechanical sense of 'plants' makes this a broader topic than it first appears.
Why do people search for plant quotes?
Gardeners and nature lovers often want reflective lines about growth and living things, while others may be researching industrial or historical uses of the word. Both audiences end up on the same page because of how flexible the term is.
Is there a quote here about the connection between people and nature?
Yes, one observes that trees and plants always seem to look like the people they live with, a quietly poetic idea about how our surroundings reflect us. Readers drawn to that theme might also enjoy the Gardening collections.
Does the collection mention industrial plants at all?
It does, with references to wartime industrial plants obtained under Lend-Lease and to power plants that rely on heat-cycle generation, covering everything from coal to nuclear fission. It's a reminder that 'plant' has a very different, more mechanical meaning outside of gardening.
How can plant quotes be used?
They fit captions for gardens, nature photography, or reflective writing about growth and environment. The Life and Food collections offer related angles if you want to expand beyond the literal plant imagery.

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.