{"quotes":[{"text":"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["childhood","landscape","memory","plants","time"],"id":788,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["diet","eating","food","omnivore","plants"],"id":3168,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.","author":"Austin O'Malley","tags":["art","harvest","plants "],"id":3325,"author_id":"Austin+O%27Malley"},{"text":"Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percieve the divine mystery in things. Once you percieve it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.","author":"Nathanael West","tags":["animals","divine","god","love","miss-lonelyhearts","plants","sin","understanding","world"],"id":10594,"author_id":"Nathanael+West"},{"text":"I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world.","author":"Antoine de Jussieu","tags":["france","library","naturalism","naturalist","observation","plants","science"],"id":13887,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Jussieu"},{"text":"Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.","author":"Dale Pendell","tags":["botany","connectivity","existential","individuality","plants"],"id":14398,"author_id":"Dale+Pendell"},{"text":"Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.","author":"Daniel Chamovitz","tags":["cognizant","consciousness","pain","plant-based-diet","plants","vegan","veganism"],"id":17755,"author_id":"Daniel+Chamovitz"},{"text":"A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies.","author":"Karthikeyan V","tags":["gardens","horticulture-therapy","nature","plants"],"id":24764,"author_id":"Karthikeyan+V"},{"text":"We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["drugs","plants"],"id":26586,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["nature","service","plants "],"id":36086,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":142,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}