#plants

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#awakens #god #man #minerals #plants

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#plants #seeds #beauty

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64) ↗

— Michael Pollan

#flowers #plants #beauty

A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back.
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #farm #farmer #ground #growth

How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present themselves for their diversion. The seedpods of stitchwort hang ready for delightful popping between thumb and finger, and later the bladder campion offers a larger, if less crisp, globe to burst. In the autumn, acorns, beechnuts, and conkers bedizen their path, with all their manifold possibilities of fun. In the summer, there is an assortment of honeys to be sucked from bindweed flowers, held fragile and fragrant to hungry lips, and the tiny funnels of honeysuckle and clover blossoms to taste. ↗

— Miss Read

#children #country #countryside #nature #plants

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #food #omnivore #plants #diet

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#plants #education

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#plants #food

I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home. ↗

— Stuart Woods

#moving #plants #home

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?' ↗

— David Sedaris

#asked #considered #dental #doing #ever