"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom"
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"Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant"
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"But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither."
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"Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants."
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"The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do."
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"One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds."
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"Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred."
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"A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known."
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"He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed."
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"Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant."
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"Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral."
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"I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted."
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"Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination."
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"I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation."
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"Love winter when the plant says nothing."
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"Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes."
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"We can plant a house, we can build a tree."
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"I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die."
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"As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant."
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"I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker."
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