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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
Diane Ackerman
Tags: Health Our Own
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.


Red Auerbach
Tags: Like Need Natural
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
Tags: Home Only America
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tags: Alone You Your
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith
Tags: He Man Himself
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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.


Tom Allen
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Tags: Men Even Believe
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Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?


Jejomar Binay
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My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
Peter Zumthor
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
Leonard Woodcock
Tags: Made Same Paid
I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.
Kyan Douglas
Tags: Good Just Idea
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.
Jessa Gamble
Tags: More Life Would
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
Clyde Edgerton
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.


Hayao Miyazaki
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
Jack Dangermond
Tags: Up Things Also
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
Otto Wallach
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
Wendell Berry
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Bill Gates
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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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
Tags: People About More
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
Robert Fortune
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
Lynn Margulis
I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.
Paul Dano
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
W. Averell Harriman
Tags: War Had Been
Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.
Steven Pinker
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
Tags: Up Had Real
I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
Chris Pratt
Tags: Pet Like Lot
Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.
George Packer
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
Alex Honnold
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
Salman Rushdie
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In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
Gregory Benford
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
Sylvia Earle
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
David Suzuki
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus
Tags: Nature Life Must
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer
Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.
Gregory Benford
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Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly.
Charles Duhigg
Tags: Power Had Way