Flowerless Plants Quotes & Sayings

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. — Pindar

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector. — Gary Locke

The mutualistic relationships between bees, the flowers that they pollinate, and the bacteria that live within the roots of those plants are at the heart of the functioning of a natural, species-rich meadow. The problem is that these relationships can be ruined by application of a sack of fertiliser, which allows the grasses to swamp the legumes and other wild flowers, swiftly resulting in a bright green, flowerless sward, with no legumes, no Rhizombium, and no bees. In the farming world this is known as "improved" grassland. In the 1940's Britain had in the region 15 million acres of flower rich grasslands. It is hard to get precise figures, but about 250,000 acres remain; a staggering loss of over 98 percent. Fertilisers were cheap, and successive governments were keen to persuade farmers to boost productivity, so ecosystems that had taken hundreds of years to develop were subject to swift and wholesale destruction. — Dave Goulson

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough. — Jose Mujica

It's my choices that have gotten me here in the first place," I sighed. "Everyone has to be somewhere," he shrugged. "And where we are is always the result of the steps we've chosen to take. — Terry Mancour

You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic. — Rod Milburn

I need time every day to think. — Lailah Gifty Akita