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Quotes About Plants

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
~ Cate Blanchett
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
~ George W. Bush
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
~ Jack Dangermond
These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.
~ Wladimir Klitschko
Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.
~ Gregory Benford
I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.
~ Natasia Demetriou
'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.
~ Seth Shostak
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
~ David Suzuki
I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.
~ Dan Levy
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
~ Andrew Weil
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
~ Mark Bittman
After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
~ Kristy Swanson
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
~ Cary Fukunaga
The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.
~ Craig Venter
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
~ Margaret Atwood
We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.
~ Hassan Rouhani
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
~ Craig Venter
With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.
~ Selman Waksman
Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.
~ Julie Newmar
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.
~ Liu Cixin
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.
~ Hope Jahren
I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants - that's a really big passion for me.
~ Kerli
I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.
~ Mike Dean