#plant

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. ↗

— E. B. White

#day #gets #his #like #little

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#better #grow #ideas #into #many

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #broken #crop #crops #does

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

#abundant #also #available #bean #crop

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South. ↗

— David F. Houston

#cold #during #especially #heavy #particular

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#always #like #live #look #people

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#am #believer #culture #future #future generations

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. ↗

— Tom Allen

#national #plants #pollution #power #power plants