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Letter "P" » plants
«I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.»
«I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.»
«One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
generation, gets, one generation, plants, shade, shaded, shading, trees
«Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
died, doctor, doctored, Doctor Who, go to, have died, office, plants
«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.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching,
Youth
| Keywords:
all too, cut, ineffective, plants, teaching
«Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.»
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
| Keywords:
compassionate, extended, plants, rivers, rocks, The Story
«Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.»
Author: William Longgood
| About:
Dawn
| Keywords:
at work, bees, best of all, clings, dew, glisten, glistening, In the Garden, plants, soil, The Garden, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Plants
| Keywords:
abilities, at large, bounded, directions, give forth, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, studies
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