Tamarisk Plant Quotes & Sayings

Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent. Garlic mustard poisons the soil so that native species will die. Tamarisk uses up all the water. Foreign invaders like loosestrife, kudzu, and cheat grass have the colonizing habit of taking over others' homes and growing without regard to limits. But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds. Plantain is so prevalent, so well integrated, that we think of it as native. It has earned the name bestowed by botanists for plants that have become our own. Plantain is not indigenous but "naturalized." This is the same term we use for the foreign-born when they become citizens in our country. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Be bold about your right to be loved. — Tarryn Fisher

What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence. — Bernardo Bertolucci

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap! — Bill Watterson

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. — Oscar Wilde

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste. — Kelly Lynch

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship — Benjamin Netanyahu

If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing. — Thomas Lopinski

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working. — Behati Prinsloo

I know I probably should be sad about my mother's cancer ... but she still hasn't seen The Last Kiss, you know? — Zach Braff