Regrowth Quotes

We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

What no one tells you - or maybe they did tell me, and I chose not to listen - is that there's really no 'coming back' from bleached platinum hair. You sort of have to cut it all off and start over.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.

It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

I don’t think everybody fully appreciates the consequences of slower growth, which are very serious. You need growth to have the resources to build the infrastructure, housing, to uphold the standard of living.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?