“I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”
William S. Gilbert
“We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.”
Don Brownlee
“Kale is a leafy vegetable that is bold and bitter, but it's packed with vitamins and minerals. You can juice it like you would carrots, putting whole stalks into a vegetable drink. It'll boost your greens and your energy levels.”
Chi Lang
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot
“In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine”
Percy Montrose