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“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.”

“Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.”

Nations Process Community Wealth Economy Growing Green Plant Soil Green Plants Plants Growing

Author:Allan Savory

“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”

“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.”

Needs Giving Natural Ability Study Too Much Talent Genius Plant Natural Ability Pruning Green Plants

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.”

Years Humans Animal Half Land Green Plant Average Eight Nine Meat Vegetarian Cows Consumption Corn Crops Acres Soybeans Green Plants

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”

Humans Matter Running Earth Nature Green Plant Complexes Human Society Affluent Bacteria Veneer Fungi Biosphere Green Plants

Book:Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Source: Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

“A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”

Men Hard Motivational Born Health Weak Green Filled Plant Gentle Dry Fitness Disciple Sap Withered Tao Te Ching Leadership Green Plants

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.”

Thinking Years Mind Growth Principles Growing Walking Rain Green Plant Workers Fairy Mexico Drought New Mexico Green Plants

Author:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

“Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.”

Mind Looks Light Sun Green Plant Rejects Reflecting Mind Blowing Green Lights Green Plants

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.”

Needs Body Light Life Is Force Health Essence Organization Green Medicine Plant Medical Driving Cells Sunlight Driving Force Absorption Essence Of Life Green Plants

Author:Maximilian Bircher-Benner