#plant

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#already #course #dominated #drama #dramatic

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ↗

— Tacitus

#implanted #man #nature #oppression #resist

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#curls #finger #heart #his #into

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Les Brown

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

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

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#chemical #create #created #crops #factories

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desire #everything #forms #fulfillment #itself

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#barrel #build #generation #gun #helmet

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#decorator #feeling #good #good idea #i