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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
Plant

"The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
Plant

"When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going."

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Gray Davis Politician
Plant

"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."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
Plant

"So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant."

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Plant

"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all."

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