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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 chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown...

Quotes by Susanna Moore

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

Quotes by Sue Hubbell

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.

Quotes by Sue Hubbell

I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis… and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.

Quotes by Steven Gundry

Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.

Quotes by Steven Gundry

The food replacement category is what it sounds like - companies are substituting plants or food grown in a lab to replace meat, fish, eggs, milk - or, like Soylent, to package nutritionally complete meals into a drink.

Quotes by Steve Blank

The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending...

Quotes by Stephen Moore

I have a living wall of 30 plants - tarragon, rosemary, echinacea. I like to walk alongside it, plucking and chewing.

Quotes by Stana Katic

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

Quotes by Soundarya

With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.

Quotes by Selman Waksman

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I...

Quotes by Sean Bean

I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

Quotes by Sandra Faber

I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside in.

Quotes by Samin Nosrat

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou....

Quotes by Sam Trammell

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let...

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans,...

Quotes by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms.

Quotes by Ryan Bethencourt

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake

I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden...

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

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.