The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson
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I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.
Percy Julian
LifeAgeMePlantsPlantRemember
With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.
Selman Waksman
SimplePlantsGreenLivingMatter
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Richard Leakey
GoodPlantsNutritionNeedBegin
If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.
Richard DeVos
WorkPlantsTableDetroitSayWant
Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants.
Lynn Good
PowerPlantsWindPlantSolarGas
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
Lewis Black
PlantsBelieveVotingEvolutionGone
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
Klaus Kinski
MyselfPeopleMePlantsMatterJust
I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.
Jane Krakowski
PlantsAliveTroublePlasticEven
All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
FoodPlantsYouBodyWhyHuman
I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.
Hope Jahren
OpportunityPeoplePlantsThinkLook
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
OceanPlantsThreeLandAirYears
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
MedicalPlantsDoctorGoOffice
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
Elon Musk
LifeWaterPlantsEarthImportant
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
Jim Crace
PlantsGardenJust BecauseWhyMore
The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.
Craig Venter
PlantsMoreSeeEfficientVery
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
PlantsBirdsSeedAnimalsLand
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
Bill Gates
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From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today.
Max Heindel
TodayPlantsLearnMysteryCapable
When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Alex Berenson
PowerPlantsWayMoreSteamGet
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
Michael Dickinson
LifeHistoryPlantsThinkGiving
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
GodSeaStormPlantsWayMysterious
My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.
Sue Hubbell
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I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.
Paul Hawken
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