#plant

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#formed #ground #had #kind #looked

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#behind #both #cut #i #i think

You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#back #better #better job #go #job

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea. ↗

— Jane Kang

#brain #grow #idea #inspirational #plant

I've been longing for, Daisies to push through the floor, And I wish that plant life would grow all around me, So I won't feel dead anymore. ↗

— Owl City

#plant-life #life

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#background #cane #cut #forebears #i

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. ↗

— Charmian Hussey

#flowers #nature #plants #pleasure #nature

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup ↗

— Michael Pollan

#plant-based-foods #whole-food #food

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#everybody #fish #granted #important #important thing