69 plant quotes to inspire your green thumb and love of plants (2023)

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow."

"A beautiful plant is like having a friend at home."

"A man does not plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

“The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is today.”

"When you plant, you are investing in a bright future in the midst of a stressful, chaotic and sometimes downright scary world."

"I grow vegetables and every time I see a flower I think, 'In a few weeks I'll have a vegetable!'"

"Always do the best you can. What you sow now, you will reap later."

"A society grows when elders plant trees whose shade they will never shade."

"I'm very simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river run by."

“A plant is the cliché, but a little green makes you happy. Spending all day in a cubicle isn't pretty, but a little life at your desk can liven you up too.”

"The fact that I plant a seed and it becomes a flower, impart a little knowledge and it smiles at someone and gets a smile in return is an ongoing spiritual practice for me."

"Like a plant that grows in rain and sun and doesn't know what helped it grow better, it's hard to say whether the hard stuff or the good stuff made me better."

“It is never so good for a man to sow a field or plant a farm, but he cannot foresee who will gather the fruits;

“It's exciting to see things coming back, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years ago. It's like seeing an old friend.”

“If you think about a year, plant a seed; if you think in ten years, plant trees; if you think about 100 years, teach people.”

"My artificial plants died because I didn't want to water them."

“You can recognize the tree by the fruit it bears. You see through what the organization is delivering in terms of a specific program. When the fruit of the tree turns sour or salty, it's time to cut it down, bury it and plant new seeds."

"You can plant a dream."

"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eyes or please my soul, to brave the elements or challenge my patience, for novelty or nostalgia, but mostly for the joy of watching them grow."

"Who sows kindness reaps love."

"We know that we cannot sow with clenched fists. To sow, you have to open your hands."

"The sun is the most important thing in everyone's life, whether you are a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted."

"I believe that every moment of great pain is a moment of transformation, a fruitful moment to plant new seeds."

"It will never rain roses: if we want more roses, we must plant more trees."

"Those who plant trees love others as much as they love themselves."

"Before reward there must be work. You sow before you reap. You sow with tears before you reap joy."

"You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't wait, you have to water and care for it."

"Apart from scientific knowledge, the secret of growing plants is love."

"Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they receive."

"Like humans, plants respond to extra attention."

"Plants are solar-powered air purifiers whose filters never need replacing."

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

"The glory of gardening: hands in the earth, head in the sun, heart in nature. Taking care of a garden nourishes not only the body, but also the soul."

"When you see a plant growing and test it in place, you have a perfect example of how you want your dish to taste."

"Plant a garden where strange plants grow and mysteries flourish."

"Everything I plant gives me great pleasure to watch it grow."

"One day is not enough to make our country green again. Sowing affection and love is what our country expects from us too. Do this, it will heal not only the country, but also your body and your mind."

"Planting a tree, especially one of the long-lived hardwoods, is a gift you can give to posterity with almost no cost or effort, and when the tree takes root it will outlast the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or "bad".

"Just as our ancestors saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, enjoy today, so too must we plant trees so that our sons and daughters and their sons and daughters can enjoy the shade."

"In the end, what matters is eating an ice cream cone, playing the trombone, planting a little tree, my god, now you're free."

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"I'm sure if you plant the trees again it won't do more than good."

“As an environmental scientist, I believe our first need is to feed, protect and nourish ourselves. This has always required and will always require the exploitation of plants”.

“You will die, but not the coal; her race doesn't end with you. It will go back to the ground, and there a plant can take it back in time and send it back into a cycle of plant and animal life."

"Clean air and water, diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources and predictable climate are annuities that will pay off as long as humanity survives and perhaps even prolong our stay on Earth."

"I plant a lot of trees. I am a firm believer in planting things for future generations. I hate the current culture where you only live for today.”

"I trust in the stable laws of beauty and usefulness in nature. Spring will sow and autumn will reap at the end of time."

"Only the farmer who faithfully sows in spring will reap in autumn."

“Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you sign up for a season, go all the way. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until it's over."

"When you grow the food you eat, it tastes better. The seasonal vegetables are grown at the right time, and you can make sure everything is ripening on the plant or tree. It's as fresh as it gets."

"Depending on the big one, the small one can climb high. Behold: The little plant that climbs the tall tree Has climbed to the top."

"What we sow in the soil of contemplation, we shall indeed reap."

"The division between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in the mind, and the Western mentality does not do well to accommodate it."

"People don't even understand that every piece of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism and tear it apart in our mouths. And we build those molecules into our own bodies. We are the earth at its deepest."

"When a tree dies, plant another in its place."

“It's fair to say that on a walk through the woods or along the beach, the most conspicuous forms of life are plants and animals, and certainly there is a great diversity of these types of organisms, perhaps 10 million species. animals and several hundred thousand species of plants”.

“Algae are the perfect food crop. Depending on the variety, they double their cell mass every twelve hours.”

“A healthy plant is one that best adapts to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure for that.”

"I now see humanity as a great plant that needs only love, nature's natural blessings, and intelligent breeding and selection for its ultimate fulfillment."

"Almost all plants and animals alive today are the result of eons of natural interbreeding."

“Whatever seed each one cultivates will grow to maturity and bear its own fruit. If they are vegetative, she will be like a plant.”

"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and form a nucleus with the power to draw to you whatever it takes to fulfill it."

"Although I don't believe that a plant grows where there is no seed, I have a lot of faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there and I am willing to expect miracles."

“If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you bring good, you will bring good back. This is part of our responsibility as artists.”

"Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field prepared in time, a plant of the same kind, marked with the special properties of the seed, will spring up in it."

"Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree."

"I don't think you can get the joy of how wonderful the plant laboratory looks to someone who has worked with plants and plant structures like mine for nearly 40 years."

"From dead plant parts to nematodes and bacteria, never underestimate the ability of fungi to find new food!"

"An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant about horticulture."

"A writer is like a beanstalk: it has its day and then it becomes stringy."

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