Famous quotes containing the word plants:
“And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 16121672)
“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flowrs and Plants allure,”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)
“From the time the Englishmans bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (18761947)