Plant Quotes

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that also.

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

One reason we would use plant medicine: to be able to take care of the body as a whole. Another reason is that it is accessible, approachable, and requires few invasive methods.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

To find out how much protein you need, take your weight and divide it by three. Rest assured, a whole foods, varied plant-based diet will give you all the protein you need.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.’

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.