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Plants Quotes

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

People Me Plants Speak Understand

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

Father Live I Am Plants Biology He

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Men Plants Believe Even Degrade

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Power Plants Process End Down Why

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Ethan Zuckerman

Power Time Roads Smart Plants Long

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

God Food Religion Plants Believe

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

Safety Plants Plan Double United

Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly.

Power Water Plants Energy Back Way

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Flower Power Tree Plants Gold Fall

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Learning Man Plants Control Behavior

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.

God Plants Trees Earth Animals Over

Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling us potted plants and pizzas while the thinkers are a little bit unworldly. Religions both think and do.

Alain de Botton

Balance Plants Think Thinking Doing

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

Education Today Flowers Plants Grow

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

Life Nature Plants Generation View

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Tristram Stuart

Art Food Purpose Plants Birds Easy

I have played games like Angry Birds and, you know, Plants vs. Zombies and things like that just for fun on the phone and everything.

Angry Fun Plants Birds You Phone

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Nature Walk Together Clouds Plants

I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.

Work People Plants Blue-Collar Who

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Rupert Sheldrake

Father Plants Who Amateur About

We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.

Path Plants Hands Country Follow

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

Relationship Food Focus Plants Human

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Women Children I Am Plants You Born

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

Louie Schwartzberg

Food Together Flowers Plants Story

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

Food Plants Shopping Person Real

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