Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.
As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.
