(1073 quotes found)
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.”
Anthony Norvell
“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni”
D.H. Lawrence
“Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.”
Claude McKay
“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”
Hammurabi
“The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair”
Abraham Cowley
“There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, [as if] they're not really alive.”
Barbara McClintock
“Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.”
Ronald Reagan
