Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

Reductionism is merciless.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

In trees, I see expression and soul

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.