#plants

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#circle #coming #continuum #flowers #full

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #hearing #hearing aids #i #implant

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ↗

— Claude McKay

#development #dwarfed #grow #human #human beings

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#extremely #faced #invented #move #peculiar

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#construction #fact #i #in fact #involved

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#am #autism #born #breath #children

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#eat #foods #mostly #much #paraphrase

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

— Alexander Smith

#man #plant #plants #posterity #tree

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#chemical #create #created #crops #factories