Plant Quotes
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.
He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.
Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.
Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.
My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.
I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.
There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.
We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.
I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.
I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.
This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.