Nature Quotes
- The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.
- Lawrence Hargrave
- That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.
- Martina Hingis
- Around the property I have here, I’m about to put an all weather race track. I’m about to build stables. I’m about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
- Davy Jones
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- I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
- Gray Davis
- Why? Because we’re very well down this process as it is – flawed as it is – and we’re counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
- Gray Davis
- What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff’s officer, or whatever.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
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- That’s not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
- Thomas Carper
- It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- B. C. Forbes
- Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
- Claude McKay
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- Use plants to bring life.
- Douglas Wilson
- He plants trees to benefit another generation.
- Caecilius Statius
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck
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Bamboo is not a weed, it’s a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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Steve Lacy
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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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Elliott Smith
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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Bruce Lee
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My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
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Rowan Williams
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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
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John Sergeant Wise
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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Hal Borland
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- God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
- William Cowper
- Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
- Jared Diamond
- I’m no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom… probably not a good idea.
- Kyan Douglas
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- I rarely watch TV but I guess I’d watch the weather report since I fly so much.
- Fred Schneider
- Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
- John Steinbeck
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