Quotes About Plants

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

I love working in the garden.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

I spend most money on my garden.

I have a little garden, and I quite enjoy fiddling about in it.

I'm a flower gardener.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

I've got really into gardening.

I'm really into gardening.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

I love nature and botanical gardens.

Solar energy, transformed into chemical energy by the photosynthesis of green plants, drives all ecological cycles.

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Yes, I find it therapeutic to clean my vessels and polish them. I like to water my plants and clean all the artefacts in my house.

Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture.

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

We now have scientific evidence for what so many world cultures have known all along: that only a handful of plants on Earth are welcomed as naturally by the human mind as is hemp.

Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils.

Science tells us much, but without an absolute communion, a thorough accord and responsive affinity between human soul and plant soul there never can be a thorough understanding of the nature of plants.