A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find.

Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.

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

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

The benefits of letting produce finish on their plant, in its natural environment, is undeniable.

As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

I don't have a manager who's secretly on Interscope. I'm the complete opposite of an industry plant.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants.

I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

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