Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

William Wilberforce

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

Michael Thompson

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

Oprah Winfrey

I did send flowers and I did send a note

Paul Simon

Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.

Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Richard P. Feynman

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Richard P. Feynman

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

Richard Whately

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Paul Saito

People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time.

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How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.

Lisa Grant

People are probably looking at Luther Burbank Home and Gardens and wondering who they are and how they got that (award).

Brittany Howard

When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.

Alice Morse Earle

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Caroline Paul

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Wendell Berry

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Tommy Futral

If you can't see through your plant somewhat, then you haven't done enough pruning.

Ken May

This has been the worst drought. It's heartbreaking. We can't do anything now. I don't want to plant a thing.

Jerry Baker

They can take their students out and not just talk about it in a classroom, they can go out and actually work with the plants and the shrubs and the trees.

Neil Young

It makes a difference. Any time you plant anything, it's when things grow.

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

Anton LaVey

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Richard Baxter

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Rick Riordan

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

William Wordsworth

A brotherhood of venerable trees.