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I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis… and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.
As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.
Yes, I find it therapeutic to clean my vessels and polish them. I like to water my plants and clean all the artefacts in my house.
When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.
We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
I have played games like Angry Birds and, you know, Plants vs. Zombies and things like that just for fun on the phone and everything.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.
The central government wants to increase the number of nuclear power plants but we believe nuclear plants have their inherent problems.
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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.
I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.
We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.
Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them with more respect.
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.
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well.
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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.
I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.
I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.
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.
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.
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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.
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
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.
Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.
At a time when you do not know what chemicals are being fed into plants, there's no way you would know how toxic animals are. So, I'd stick to vegetarian fare.