Plant Pest Risk

Famous quotes containing the words plant, pest and/or risk:

    They do not live in the world,
    Are not in time and space.
    From birth to death hurled
    No word do they have, not one
    To plant a foot upon,
    Were never in any place.
    Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. ‘Tis a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)