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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...

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Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?''There's...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic...

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly inc...

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dio...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisono...

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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischi...

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

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The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” ...

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A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it p...

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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...

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Terence McKennaFood of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves...

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With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes ...

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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land un...

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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...

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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are r...

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An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladd...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

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

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chan...

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the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenm...

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In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We ...

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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

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The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can ma...

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A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life pl...

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The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose...

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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds...

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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I...

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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals o...

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and w...

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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom