#plant

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#hearts #holy #holy book #humiliation #implanted

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#christians #conspicuous #desire #discriminate #distinctions

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#centuries #elements #even #exist #i

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. ↗

— Saadi

#areas #because #biodiversity #coastal #coral

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#eyes #feet #his #man #planted

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#area #country #dangerous #insects #live

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#different #different subjects #fed #implanted #increase

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