It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.
Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
