#plants

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#case #dwarfed #flower #flowering #freely

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#build #california #difficult #new #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

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#adapt #also #am #could #i

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#earth #event #every #his #life

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