A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Roberto Burle Marx

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.
Bill Munson

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.
Carolus Linnaeus

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
Kim Dae Jung

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Robert Treat Paine

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Jeff Hawkins

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
Mike Rogers

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy