#plant

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. ↗

— David Baltimore

#allow #beings #born #call #cloning

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ↗

— Saint Basil

#deed #deeds #friendship #fruit #gathers

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America. ↗

— Joe Biden

#another #auto #automobile #automobile industry #back

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#doing #exotic #flora #garden #i

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#ally #better #diet #easy #everyone

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#evidence #less #live #longer #more

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants. ↗

— Lewis Black

#al gore #believe #bush #eisenhower #evolution

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#civil #civil rights #clear #could #exercise