And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it’s true. It’s kind of unbelievable. – Jeff Hawkins
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. – Lewis Thomas
You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build. – John Abizaid
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. – John Sexton
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him… But I can’t go up and speak to him, because I don’t want to seem like a goob. – Jennifer Nettles
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them. – Michael Pollan
I’m sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. – Josh Duhamel
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. – Moshe Dayan
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. – Lakshmi Mittal
If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. – Maya Angelou
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. – Rumi
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest. – Richard Jefferies
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. – Ralph Ransom
I don’t think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems. – Percy Julian
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. – Rene Redzepi
The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom. – Richard Preston
I’m a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock’s films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful. – Paul Haggis
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. – Ralph Merkle
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. – Richard Lamm
Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars. – Ronald Kessler
I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, ‘Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.’ That felt pretty good. – Robin Zander
I have been intimately involved in the techniques of genetic modification as a scientist since GMOs were first conceived. In that time, hundreds of studies and tests have been done on GMO safety – and we’ve seen no scientific evidence that GMOs are inherently more dangerous than crops produced by traditional plant breeding. – Richard J. Roberts
I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often. – Richard J. Codey
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. – Orville Redenbacher
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress. – Richard Marx
