Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired b...
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
You want to work spells,' Ogion said presently, striding along. 'You've drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?''...
Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.
Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. If...
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run ou...
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Re...
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far...
In nature there is no death, Only a reshuffling of atoms.
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: Remember this,...