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Plant Quotes - Page 7

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

"Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: 'My Friends Are Everything'". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

John Burroughs (1901). “A year in the fields: selections from the writings of John Burroughs”