Quotes About Plant

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant

Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It's a slow-growing plant.

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant, but we'd let ours dry up.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

There was a sense within her, - too ill-defined to be made a thought, but weighing heavily on her mind, - that her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one plant that gave it unity.

If production continued, the Allies would likely attack Vemork again. He wanted to move the plant's high-concentration equipment—including all existing stocks of heavy water at every level of concentration—to Germany, where a new plant would be constructed.

But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.

a fusion power plant would produce a larger volume of radioactive waste than a standard nuclear power plant.

Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.

To plant your idea in someone's head. To plant someone's money in your own pocket. He who succeeds in the former, we call teacher. He who succeeds with the latter, we call boss. The one who succeeds in both, we call wife. The one who fails in both, we call husband.

They desecrate Riora's sacred temple! She will be enraged." "Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed." "Somebody put a plant in front of it!

To save seeds is to complete the circle. When we save seeds, we are plant breeders, choosing which germplasm to perpetuate.

Hope can be like a plant that sprouts and grows and keeps people alive. But it can also be a wound that refuses to heal.

You'd never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose," mused the other.

Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished like a plant in good soil.

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.