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

  Barbara McClintock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plants, Find

• I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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  A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Topics in Friendship, Kindness, Love

  Tags in Courtesy, Plants

• The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes – as well as humans. It is not important that we didn’t actually finish the human sequence yet.

  Freeman Dyson

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  Tags in Sequence, Plants, Important

• I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Plants, Animals

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Plants

• Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

  Asa Gray

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  Tags in Plants, Philosophical, Evidence, Occupied

• It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

  Asa Gray

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  Tags in Understood, Blend, Animals, Plants

• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

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  Tags in Plants, Animals, Composed, Elements

• 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

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  Tags in Ordinary, Plants, Animals, Best

• Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

  William Bligh

  Topics in Environment, Nature

  Tags in Increased, Plants

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Shade, Plants, Know

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Garden, Plants, Matters

• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Paid, Would, Plants, Living

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

  John Harrison

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  Tags in Fine, Soil, Plants, Just

• One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John William Gardner

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• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  Caecilius Statius

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• There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well– but I’d compare it to when you go to someone’s house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.

  Shane Pliska

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Vanity, Plants

• I don’t think we’re going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we’ve got to translate that into what’s in it for us.

  Jim Fowler

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental, Saving, Plants