Emma Bull

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

American Writer

Tom Hanks

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

American Actor

Jim Rohn

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

American Businessman

Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

American Author

George Monbiot

As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.

British Writer

Martin Luther

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

German Leader

Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Natasia Demetriou

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

English Comedian

Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Douglas Wilson

American Entertainer

Plants are commonly talked about in biology, nature activities, and gardening discussions.

Living Organisms

'Plant' refers to more than just flowers; it includes trees, shrubs, and grasses too.

Not Just Flowers

When discussing jobs or economies, 'plant' usually means a manufacturing site or factory.

Workplace Context

Power plants are specialized factories for electricity generation, often associated with 'power plant'.

Energy Production

'Plant' as a verb is mostly used with gardening or forestry activities.

Gardening Action

The verb 'plant' can metaphorically indicate the start of something that will develop further.

Beginnings

'Plant' means placing something securely and sometimes with force or intent.

Firm Placement

'Plant' can describe an action that expresses strong emotions, like a kiss or a hug.

Emotional Gestures

In legal or criminal contexts, 'plant' suggests placing something secretly to mislead.

Deception Involved

'Planting' something, like a listening device, often implies clandestine intentions.

Secrecy is Key

 for lots of organisms, like frogs and fish and birds. Without them, plants would lose a pollinator. But some scientists say that mosquitos aren't actually all that important. If we got rid of them, they argue, another species would simply take their place and we'd probably have far fewer deaths from malaria.

The loathsome, lethal...

 What do they eat and how do they play? How do they treat their young and their old? What relationships do they have with the animals and plants of the world? And what do those animals and plants look like? What kind of technology exists? Transportation? Communication? Access to information?

How to build a fictional...

 and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators. Thorns, spines, and prickles discourage bigger herbivores.

The amazing ways plants...

 dutifully helping lonely plants have sex, aren't alone. But rather are part of a very complex network of matchmaking creatures, critical for the pollination of natural ecosystems and crops. Plants in many natural ecosystems need help to have sex.

How bees help plants...

 so your brain appeals to other muscles for help. You plant your feet, tighten your belly, and tense your back, generating enough force to yank it open. Your nervous system has just leveraged the resources you already have, other muscles,

What makes muscles grow?...

 most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize

How to rebuild the world...

 It's the world most widely used drug. So how does it keep us awake? Caffeine evolved in plants where it serves a few purposes. In high doses, as it's found in the leaves and seeds of certain species, it's toxic to insects.

How does caffeine keep...

 basic neskowin so I felt like maybe I could help humanity and plants and the ecosystems by applying my biology degree to farming after that it was pretty much no turning back straight chamber night

The Call of the Land:...

 Breeders have also used other types of genetic techniques, such as random mutagenesis, which induces uncharacterized mutations into the plants.

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 plants and animals flourish there all food for a mudskipper but life on land is not without problems it's hard work to find a mate