Quotes of: Plant Keyword

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.

Nancy Gibbs

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

W. Averell Harriman

Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window. The great beech filled at least half the sky and shook shadows all over the house. Its roots clutched the slope like a giant hand, holding the hill in place....

Cider With Rosie

The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it's sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an then goes back to his old life of bars and chasing ...

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go whe...

Fahrenheit 451

In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to gener...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don...

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

The Everglades was the only place on earth where alligators (broad snout, fresh water, darker skin) and crocodiles (pointy snout, salt water, toothy grin) lived side by side. It was the only home of the Everglades mink, Okeechobee gourd, and Big Cypr...

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

I have no hankerin’ for thrills if needs be sought in the heavens. I shall keep my feet firmly planted in contentment.

The Crossing Hour

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant. 'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.

Crowharrow

Was your mom a gardener?' I asked innocently. 'What?' Ren’s mouth hung open slightly. 'Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground.

Daimon

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

Eagle Strike

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Blue Dahlia

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

Black Dawn

It is impossible to move forward with one foot planted in the past.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You

Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.

Hunger