#plant

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#having #might #much #over #person

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#business #carry #fields #find #into

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#brutes #degrade #even #impious #into

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cannot #comes #even #forth #happen

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#conscious mind #day #emotion #mind #nourish

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. ↗

— Robert Treat Paine

#columbia #earth #plant #rolls #sea

An intelligent woman with allies can accomplish anything ↗

— Margaret Plant

#plant #spirits #intelligence

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#gross #i #implants #me #out

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. ↗

— Douglas Reed

#christian #like #looked #pagan #planted