plants

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

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

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

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

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

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

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

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Use plants to bring life.

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.