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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Plants'

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I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
Gustav Krupp, German Businessman (1870-1950)
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
Kenneth Lay, American Businessman (1942-2006)
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Richard Leakey, Kenyan Environmentalist (1944-  )
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
Dan Lipinski, American Politician (1966-  )
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge, English Physicist (1851-1940)
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Francis Cabot Lowell, American Businessman (1775-1817)
The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
Mike Marsh, American Athlete (1967-  )
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock, American Scientist (1902-1992)
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay, Jamaican Writer (1889-1948)
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Terence McKenna, American Writer (1946-2000)
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
Gregor Mendel, Austrian Scientist (1822-1884)
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
Ralph Merkle, American Scientist (1952-  )
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton, American Author (1915-1968)
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.
Jeff Miller, American Politician (1959-  )
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Writer (1463-1494)
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore, Irish Poet (1779-1852)
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
Gale Norton, American Public Servant (1954-  )
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Gale Norton, American Public Servant (1954-  )
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley, American Physicist
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi Pirandello, Italian Playwright (1867-1936)
 
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