Quotes About Plants

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

But not even ardent nut lovers eat wild almonds, of which a few dozen contain enough cyanide (the poison used in Nazi gas chambers) to kill us. The forest is full of many other plants deemed inedible.

Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and

The UCLA historian Christopher Ehret has applied this linguistic approach to determining the sequence in which domestic plants and animals became utilized by the people of each African language family. By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals.

we can recognize at least six groups of reasons for failed domestication.

Two contrasting explanations suggest themselves: problems with the local people, or problems with the locally available wild plants.

Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us. The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.

if you study in order to instruct, and herbalize only to become author or professor, all its attractive charms vanish, and plants, being no longer considered but as instruments of our passions, no more real pleasure can result from the study of them. Our end, then, is not to gain knowledge, but to make others sensible of our acquirements;

Spain laid the foundations of this great wealth and evil in the Americas, then quickly became distracted and forgot about it. After introducing the plants, the technology, and the slaves into Santo Domingo, the Spanish dropped the sugar business in favor of hunting for gold and silver. They moved on to Mexico and South America in search of the precious metals

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

even tries to snorkel under the plants, but when it comes up for air it gets blasted by a Repeater you've placed on a Lily Pad. Finally, the zombie wave stops. You collapse on the grass, exhausted. "Hey, anybody want to go swimming?" Matt asks. You think of the Tangle Kelp lurking under the water and shudder. "Um, I don't think that's a good

That's right," she said. "DIE, you little monster plants. May your roots always be thirsty and your seeds all meet a fiery death until you're extinct forever! I HATE you!

That's right!" she said. "Die, you little monster plants. May your roots always be thirsty, and your seeds meet a fiery death until you're extinct forever! I HATE you." "Yowch." Turtle said. "You don't ever have mild feelings, do you?

Nowadays we only lose a few dragons a year to the carnivorous plants." "The what now?" Swordtail said, his voice rising an octave. "CARNIVOROUS WHATS?

Nowadays we only lose a few dragons a year to the carnivorous plants." "The what now?" Swordtail said, his voice rising an octave. "CARNIVOROUS

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one's nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

China. It happens to be the country that, by itself, consumes a quarter of all the electricity generated in the world. And its growing economy needs more electric generation capacity. Even as China continues to build out wind and solar at a rapid rate, it is also adding three new highly-efficient coal-fired plants a month.

For me, the Canyon isn't just a tourist destination. It's a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.

the overburden like that they've turned the geology upside down. Topsoil is on the bottom and rock that was on the bottom is now on top. Native plants and trees won't grow in it. So they introduce non-native plantings that are royally screwing up the ecosystem.

Foraging Oregon covers plants that can be used primarily for food and are common in Oregon

Our focus is on those wild foods that are widespread, easily recognizable and identifiable, and sufficient to create meals.