Plant Quotes
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
Terence McKenna -
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
Terence McKenna
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
Carl Linnaeus -
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus -
As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.
Cassandra Danz -
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
Michael Pollan -
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret -
An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either kratom or kratom, and forms of it are sold in shops and on the internet. In the next few weeks, kratom is set to be classified as a Schedule I drug. That puts it in the same category with marijuana and heroin.
Audie Cornish
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
Terence McKenna -
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
Terence McKenna -
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Celia Thaxter -
In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.
Terence McKenna -
I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
Evelyn Glennie -
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
Terence McKenna