130 Vegetation Quotes
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Famous Vegetation Quotes
This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live. — Patrick Geddes
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty. — Joseph Paxton
The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss. — Emily Carr
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan
All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. — Lao Tzu
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. — Gertrude Stein
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. — Rabindranath Tagore
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth. — Masanobu Fukuoka
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
All gardening is landscape painting. — William Kent
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. — Karl Blossfeldt
Short Vegetation Quotes
- An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. — Will Rogers
- Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
- Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile. — Dan Buettner
- Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. — Tad Dorgan
- Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. — Doug Larson
- We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do. — Michael Greger
- The beet is the most intense of vegetables — Tom Robbins
- Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. — Enrico Caruso
- Every vegetable has its time. — Russian Proverbs
- When you eat, it’s vegetable, when you are sick, it’s medicine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Natural Vegetation Quotes
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. — Joan Miro
Coconut oil contains the most concentrated natural source of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) available. Substituting coconut oil for other vegetable oils in your diet will help promote weight loss. — Bruce Fife
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. — Carl Linnaeus
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions. — Marilu Henner
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. — Antoine Lavoisier
Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate. — Spencer W. Kimball
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life. — George Perkins Marsh
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables. — Prince Charles
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. — Miles Franklin
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. — Fran Lebowitz
Soil Day Quotes
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. — Simone de Beauvoir
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it. — Jerry Brown
Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me. — Henry David Thoreau
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. — William Bourke Cockran
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. — Ron Fournier
How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? — William Logan
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song. — Jon Foreman
I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day. — Gary Player
[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote. — Rush Limbaugh
About Gardening Quotes
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. — Dale Carnegie
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. — Vita Sackville-West
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
And all this time when you could have been romping around the f*cking Garden of Eden f*cking hot girls and eating steaks and living a beautiful life you were worried about... — Duncan Trussell
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful. — Jim Carrey
Successful SEO is not about tricking Google. It’s about partnering with Google to provide the best search results for Google’s users. — Rand Fishkin
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. — Jeffrey Donovan
Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. — E. B. White
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. — John Evelyn
Vegetable Quotes
Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables. — David Duke
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping. — William Shakespeare
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott! — Dolores Huerta
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. — Jane Elliott
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. — Ronald Reagan
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise. — Linford Christie
Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo. — Steven Gundry
Fruits And Vegetables Quotes
Diets that are high in sugar and processed foods are bad for our microbes, and by extension for our health, and diets that are high in vegetables and fruits are good for both. — Tim Spector
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully. — Sayings
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke
Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits. — Misty May-Treanor
Men and women aged forty-five to seventy-nine who are physically active, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, do not smoke, and consume alcohol moderately have on average one-fourth the risk of death during a given year than people with unhealthy habits. — Daniel Lieberman
Eating a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables is essential for good health. — Steven Gundry
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. — Cat Cora
I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you. — Carrie Ann Inaba
Vegetable Garden Quotes
Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean. — Dan Buettner
The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt. — Dave Barry
Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. — Jean Houston
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. — Kin Hubbard
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. — Jane Grigson
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. — Okakura Kakuzo
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. — Alice B. Toklas
One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas. — Barbara Holland
How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans. — Kamila Shamsie
People Writing About Vegetation
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Emily Carr |
75 | 1064 |
 Wendell Berry |
487 | 3716 |
 Michael Pollan |
289 | 920 |
 Lao Tzu |
1418 | 11725 |
 Gertrude Stein |
350 | 1889 |
 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola |
11 | 108 |
More Vegetation Quotes
Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables. — Tae Yun Kim
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Like it or not, we are slightly fat, furless, bipedal primates who crave sugar, salt, fat, and starch, but we are still adapted to eating a diverse diet of fibrous fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers, and lean meat. We enjoy rest and relaxation, but our bodies are still those of endurance athletes evolved to walk many miles a day and often run, as well as dig, climb and carry. — Daniel Lieberman
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. — Carol Alt
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like. — Cato the Younger
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. — W. S. Gilbert
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. — Albert Einstein
Do your squats eat, your vegetables, wear red lipstick, [and] don't let boys be mean to you. — Kendall Jenner
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling. — Ambrose Bierce
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. — Hu Shih
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat — Steven Wright
The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza. — Herman Cain
Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables. — Rick Riordan
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. — Tom Robbins
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