Plant Quotes

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

Whatever it is that we put in our hearts and minds, whatever seed you plant in it, it will grow. We might not know it but subconsciously, in one way or another, it can affect us.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.