Tepuis Plants Quotes

Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me. ~ Robert Aitken

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere. ~ Frances Beinecke

Fill your office with plants and flowers. Spider plants and plants with hairy leaves absorb air pollutants (such as formaldehyde), produce oxygen, and add color to ease you eyes. Chrysanthemums, azaleas, and Gerbera daisies are similarly helpful. ~ Lewis Harrison

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants. ~ Leonard Woodcock

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change. ~ May Sarton

Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere. ~ Robert Sylwester

Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs ( ... Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles ... Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put ... by snorting or injecting ... directly into ... bloodstreams without giving ... bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants ... may modify the active principles, making them safer ... ~ Andrew Weil

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. ~ Octavio Paz

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral. ~ Charles Duhigg

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? ~ Jeremy Rifkin

People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction
and defense. ~ Michael Crichton

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. ~ James Hansen

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. ~ Arthur Young

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. ~ Michael Pollan

What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard -
The treble of heaven's harmony.
These things he plants who plants a tree. ~ Henry Cuyler Bunner

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. ~ Asa Gray

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

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

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. ~ Richard Leakey

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants. ~ Lauren Conrad

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them. ~ Tom Hanks

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories. ~ Thomas Carper

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power. ~ Alex Berenson

Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. ~ Georg Brandes

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water. ~ Desmond Tutu

The exchange between plants and people has shaped the evolutionary history of both. Farms, orchards, and vineyards are stocked with species we have domesticated. Our appetite for their fruits leads us to till, prune, irrigate, fertilize, and weed on their behalf. Perhaps they have domesticated us. Wild plants have changed to stand in well-behaved rows and wild humans have changed to settle alongside the fields and care for the plants - a kind of mutual taming. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. ~ Charmian Hussey

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ~ George W. Bush

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants. ~ Louie Schwartzberg

Twine from trees and plants can make good floss! ~ Jenna Morasca

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage. ~ Kris Carr

As weird as it may seem, I enjoy doing laundry and watering my plants, very normal things like that. ~ Kimberly Schlapman

No other life is as pure as the plants. It is no wonder we cannot understand them. ~ Robert Black

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked. ~ Stephen Colbert

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems ~ Andrea Jones

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals. ~ Craig Mello

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case. ~ Cate Blanchett

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ~ Asa Gray

Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina. ~ Ratan Tata

Use plants to bring life. ~ Douglas Wilson

The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants. ~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil. ~ Nalini Singh

Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of twigs. Desire makes plants very brave, so they can find what they desire; and very tender, so they can feel what they find. ~ Amy Leach

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy. ~ Cary Fukunaga

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so. ~ Otto Wallach

Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow. ~ Bill Kreutzmann

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity. ~ Edwin Soeryadjaya

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. ~ A. J. Jacobs

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

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. ~ Craig Venter

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants, ~ Malcolm Wells

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants. ~ Luis Federico Leloir

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest. ~ Andrew Weil

Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment ~ Sanchita Pandey

Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents ... you name it. Treat all plants with respect! ~ Janet Macunovich

We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants. ~ Jean-Marie Lehn

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. ~ Barbara McClintock

I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself. ~ Doreen Virtue

Human beings will be remembered as the race who tried to destroy everything they did not understand. People, animals, plants, even the giant ball they called home. ~ Robert Black

I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February to sell plants from a derelict site in Market Road. I think he's Greek, but people say he comes from Essex. He vanishes at the end of May only to reappear in December as suddenly as he went. ~ Diana Quick

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

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. ~ Tom Allen

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants. ~ Baba Kalyani

We stared straight ahead in silence until Blake said,"Wanna talk about plants?"
"I'd love to talk about plants.
And, boy, did we. ~ A&E Kirk

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way. ~ David LaChapelle

Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again. ~ David Suzuki

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ~ Wilson Greatbatch

Some growers believe that a particular type of music makes the plants grow faster, but most agree that the best strategy for the plants is to play whatever music the workers like best. ~ Amy Stewart

I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in. ~ Harrison Ford

By far the largest single organisms that ever lived are plants, and an impressive percentage of the world's biomass is locked up in plants. [...] The surface of the land is green because of plants, and the surface of the sea would be green too if its floating carpet of photosynthesisers were macroscopic plants instead of microorganisms too small to reflect noticeable quantities of green light. It is as though plants are going out of their way to cover every square centimetre with green, leaving none uncovered. And that is pretty much what they are doing […] From a plant's point of view, a square centimetre of the Earth's surface that is anything but green amounts to a negligently wasted opportunity to sweep up photons. ~ Richard Dawkins

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. ~ W. Averell Harriman

In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. ~ Douglas Brinkley

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer. ~ Mark Bittman

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ~ Jared Diamond

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. ~ Jeff Miller

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts. ~ Will.i.am

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ~ Dan Lipinski

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years. ~ Gregory Benford

Plants are not like us. They are different in critical and fundamental ways. As I catalog the differences between plants and animals, the horizon stretches out before me faster than I can travel and forces me to acknowledge that perhaps I was destined to study plants for decades only in order to more fully appreciate that they are beings we can never truly understand. Only when we begin to grasp this deep otherness can we be sure we are no longer projecting ourselves onto plants. Finally we can begin to recognize what is actually happening.

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood... ~ Hope Jahren

He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area? ~ Asa Gray

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

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ~ Claude McKay

I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants. ~ Klaus Lackner

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language. ~ Natasha Trethewey

The emergence of self-organized ecoranges generates the potential for highly adaptable responses to environmental perturbations that might affect that ecorange. Within that system, all the plants are continually communicating with each other, sending chemical communications along the mycelial network to other plants in the community. (Plants also speak using auditory signals through a complex sound-based language that is far more ancient than the human though it exists in a much subtler sound spectrum than our own.) ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level. ~ Gary Larson

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond. ~ Eliot Spitzer

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ~ Paul Berg

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance. ~ Alan Watts

Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or burned, providing a steady supply of medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and oils. ~ Chris Kilham

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry. ~ Gregory Petsko

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market. ~ Gray Davis