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I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few hours; that this wonderful operation is by no means owing to the vegetation of the plant, but to the influence of light of the sun upon the plant.

Jan Ingenhousz
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I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few hours; that this wonderful operation is by no means owing to the vegetation of the plant, but to the influence of light of the sun upon the plant.

Jan Ingenhousz, Experiments upon vegetables
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EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbour's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime, the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his gluteus maximus.

Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Gail Sheehy
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Antoine Lavoisier
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Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Gail Sheehy
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Has anyone done research on herbs, trees and vegetation referred to in the Bible? Share your thoughts.

Sudhir Ahluwalia, Holy Herbs : Modern Connections to Ancient Plants
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Natalie Jeremijenko
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Rosa Luxemburg
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There is no feminine gaze that I would not forget at the sight of mountains covered with curly vegetation, and illumined by the southern sun, at the sight of the blue sky, or at the sound of a torrent that falls from crag to crag.

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
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