Plant Quotes

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful.

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.