We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.
Robert Fortune
PlantsSeedsSpeakProcessMy Own
I eat plants. I eat lean meat. I work out.
Jake Arrieta
WorkPlantsEatMeatOutLean
Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms.
Ryan Bethencourt
BeginningPlantsBuildingTools
We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
Helen Fisher
TimeFlowersPlantsTreesClothes
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
Michel Onfray
WomanI AmHappyMePlantsEnergy
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.
Cary Fowler
FoodPlantsConnectionsRealizeMost
A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
Luis Federico Leloir
WorkPlantsLogicalOurInvestigate
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
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I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.
Jon Favreau
LoveMePlantsWorldGrowSeasons
I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
Victoria Aveyard
MyselfPlantsGrowKnowRightDive
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
Donna Reed
FamilyPowerHealthMoneyPlants
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
PlantsTreesDieBornSoilLand
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
OpportunityGovernmentPeoplePlants
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
Naoto Kan
PlantsWorldIndiaBuildMovement
When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.
Corneille Ewango
LifeBeautifulI AmPlantsPlant
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
Jack Dangermond
HealthWaterSpacePlantsDataYou
I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.
Antoni Porowski
PlantsDeepTreesObsession
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
PowerPlantsLimitsPollutionCarbon
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Asa Gray
BestAnimalPlantsOpinionPlant
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
LoveFoodHateI AmPlantsAnimals
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
Peter Zumthor
RelationshipMePlantsQuietCompany
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
E. O. Wilson
LivePlantsPlanYouAnimalsGet
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
Shilpa Shetty
LoveTimeGardeningI AmPlants
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore
DayGardeningSleepPlantsSunlight
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