Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
A dream is a seed. Vision plants it. Imagination nurtures growth. Opportunities create blooms. Thoughts become things!
A Dream is a seed. Vision plants it. Imagination nurtures growth. Opportunities create blooms. Reflection becomes Reality!
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Beetlejuice: Not so fast, round boy. We're gonna have some laughs. [he plants a kiss on Otho]
We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
Léon: [referring to his plant] It's my best friend. Always happy. No questions.
The Dag: Angharad used to call them antiseed. Plant one and watch something die.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
Susan Orlean: What I came to understand is that change is not a choice. Not for a species of plant, and not for me.
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
