Plant Quotes

• The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Ridiculous

• There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Community
  • Medical
  • Western

• There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

  

  David M. Raup
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Animal

• Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Tree
  • Plant
  • Tomorrow

• Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Blood
  • Civilization
  • Grows

• Okay, so why was the plant built in the first place? It was built to produce products. Why can’t that be the goal? Jonah said it wasn’t. But I don’t see why it isn’t the goal. We’re a manufacturing company. That means we have to manufacture something, doesn’t it? Isn’t that the whole point, to produce products? Why else are we here?

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Goal
  • Products
  • Manufacturing

• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Enemy
  • Path

• Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Good
  • Thoughts
  • Plant

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

  

  Will Christopher Baer
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Ignore

• It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Effort

• One reason we would use plant medicine: to be able to take care of the body as a whole. Another reason is that it is accessible, approachable, and requires few invasive methods.

  

  Karen Rose
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Medicine

• Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

  

  Barbara Damrosch
  • Learn
  • Plant
  • Gardening

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

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Energy
  • Plant

• Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

  

  Cathie Pelletier
  • Sometimes
  • Advice
  • Asking

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

  

  Homaro Cantu
  • Perfect
  • Hours
  • Cells

• We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Losing

• Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Decision

• Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Should
  • Building

• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  

  Roberto Burle Marx
  • Artist
  • Color
  • Garden

• Plant your love and let it grow.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Romantic
  • Plant
  • Grows

• Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Plant

• I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

  

  Carl E. Olson
  • War
  • Drug
  • Capable

• The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Intention
  • Messages

• Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

  

  Eleanor Dark
  • Growth
  • Plant
  • Hatred

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