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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.


Asa Gray


#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.


Asa Gray


#become #before #best #definition #differentiated

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.


Wilson Greatbatch


#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.


Tom Hanks


#about #around #basic #enjoy #land

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.


John Harrison


#build #fine #just #material #organic

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

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.


Mitch Hedberg


#because #did #died #fake #i

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.


David Hobson


#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.


Zora Neale Hurston


#always #like #live #look #people

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.


Muhammad Iqbal


#divine #faithful #minerals #only #orders






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