#plant

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#even #everyone #five #goodness #grapes

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself. ↗

— John Sexton

#been #before #being #compelled #dramatic

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. ↗

— John Sexton

#cooperative #general #general manager #had #magical

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal. ↗

— John Sexton

#day #first #found #i #i remember

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#man #plant #plants #posterity #tree

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ↗

— Tacitus

#implanted #man #nature #oppression #resist

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#plants #love