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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown

Results from Classic Quotes:

He plants trees to benefit another generation.: Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.: English Proverb
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act III, sc. 4

Results from Cole's Quotables:

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.: Austin O'Malley
You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

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