Plants quotes

Explore the breathtaking beauty of nature's green wonders with our diverse collection of plant quotes. Get inspired by the resilience, growth, and serenity offered by plants.

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 Moore

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Luigi Pirandello

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

- Claude McKay

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

- Gray Davis

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

- Arthur Young

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

- Edward Steichen

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

- John Harrison

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

- Soundarya

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

- Theophrastus

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

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

- Paul Berg

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.

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

- Kyan Douglas

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

- Barbara McClintock

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

- Mitch Hedberg

I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.

- Dana Delany

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

- Morihei Ueshiba

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

- Ellsworth Huntington

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

- Asa Gray

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

- Thomas Carper

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

- Marilyn vos Savant

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

- B. C. Forbes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

- David Attenborough

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

- Daphne Zuniga

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.

- D. Elton Trueblood

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

- Ruth Bernhard

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

- Gustav Krupp