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The Plant
«A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them»
«Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light»
«My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.»
«A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.»
Author: Roberto Burle Marx
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aesthetic, arabesque, disappearance, plastic, The Plant, volume
«The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.»
«If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
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blown, dung, full-blown, inkling, physiology, prelate, prelates, Seeing Eye, The Plant, ugliness
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.»