#plant

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules. ↗

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

#nature #plants #life

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#gratitude #insignificant #miracle #plant #seed

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#again #animal #animal life #carbon #career

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#care #get #grows #just #plant

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#god #himself #histories #our #planted

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#clings #even #everything #hope #love is

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#fruits #good #insects #need #nutrition

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#before #big #comeback #days #drive

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#cane #field #i #plantation #sustained