#plants

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#appropriate #craftsman #cultivate #does #environment

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#directions #except #experience #forth #give

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#did #enjoying #i #life #me

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ↗

— George W. Bush

#crunch #enough #generating #plants #power

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 undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home

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

He plants trees to benefit another generation. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#another #benefit #generation #plants #trees