(1073 quotes found)
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”
George W. Bush
“Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.”
Terry Tempest Williams
“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.”
Confucius
“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
Thomas Merton
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do”
Charles Dudley Warner
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
Galileo Galilei
“The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.”
Hermann Hagedorn
“I'm a plant eater.”
Roberto Burle Marx
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
Elton Trueblood
“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
Thomas More
