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900 Inspirational Plant Quotes For The Plant Lover (2023)

1. “Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.” — Terri Guillemets


2. I must have flowers, always and always. – Claude Monet


3. “The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone” – Tupac Shakur


4. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.” – Christine Caine


5. Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace


6. “I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That’s therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. ” Billy Williams


7. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”


8. “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”


9. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett, investor


10. “Life’s a garden — dig it. ” Gardening Saying


11. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” — Cynthia Occelli


12. Bloom where you’re planted. 🌺


13. “Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ” Richard Brinsley Sheridan


14. “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


15. “She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.” – Unknown


16. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.” – Maya Angelou


17. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”


18. ‘Sometimes when in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, when actually you’ve been planted.’ – Christine Caine


19. “You’re my best bud.” – Unknown


20. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller


21. “If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.” Russell Page


22. “My love for you blossoms every day.” – Unknown


23. “I’m not a plant killer, I’m just allergic to them.”


24. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.. — Robert Louis Stevenson


25. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”– Robert Louis Stevenson


26. “Let your dreams blossom.” – Unknown


27. Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.


28. “Gardening is a work of a lifetime: you never finish.” — Oscar de la Renta


29. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval


30. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” ―Christine Caine


31. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ” Thomas Jefferson


32. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.”


33. “the soil here is harsh


34. “I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.” Phyllis Theroux


35. "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson


36. “You gotta stop watering dead plants.” — Unknown


37. “I thought I was pretty cool until I realized plants can eat the sun and poop out air.” — Jim Bugg


38. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder


39. “Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.” – Lailah Gifty Akita


40. “Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals attract and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime.”~Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong


41. “Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”― Israelmore Ayivor


42. “Gardeners learn by trowel and error. ” Gardening Saying


43. “I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” David Hobson


44. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”


45. 20 years ago was the perfect time to plant a tree. Now is the second-best time.


46. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot


47. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — The Notebook


48. “Introduce tabletop plants...


49. “Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” – David Hicks


50. “The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” Michael Pollan


51. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” Gertrude Jekyll


52. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. – Zora Neale Hurston


53. “A Christmas tree–the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.” – (Jay Leno)


54. I wasn’t drunk; I was just testing if the plant was as soft as my bed.


55. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.


56. “Gardening is a form of therapy, a way to heal the mind and spirit.”


57. “You are also far less likely to waste food when you have nurtured it from a seed into a plant.” — Darina Allen


58. “You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not only survive but bloom into a beautiful plant. That was me—my whole life.”


59. “We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners to try and convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be destroyed. This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If you see ugliness in his creations, then you see ugliness in our Creator. Wake up. If we eliminate all colors in his garden, then what would be a rainbow with only one color? And what would be a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”


60. “You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature.”― Amit Ray


61. “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. ” Ralph Waldo Emerson


62. Bloom where you are planted!


63. “There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. ” Hal Borland (1900–1978)


64. “One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting, caring, and loving are also expecting our earth from us. Do it. It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind.” – Karthikeyan V.


65. Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. – Linda Solegato


66. “In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”


67. “I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ” Beau Bridges


68. “(Year of your baby’s birth) – the year I grow a human but still kill all the plants.”


69. Plants: This clever idea shows how your baby will be growing, just like your favorite plants. (via @blessencephotography and My Well Loved Life


70. letterboard sitting with plant and picture frame says good morning, make today tolerable.


71. “If a plant is sad, do other plants photosympathise with it.”


72. “A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ” D. Elton Trueblood


73. “Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” Richard Brinsley Sheridan


74. Sorry darling, I have plants this weekend


75. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”– Audrey Hepburn


76. “Life begins the day you start a garden.” Chinese Proverb


77. Always do your best. When you plant now, you will harvest later.


78. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” – Corita Kent


79. "When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree. Have a beautiful morning.”


80. “Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.”


81. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other with us in our minds wherever we go.” — Martha Washington


82. “Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”―Israelmore Ayivor


83. “A seed knows how to wait… a seed is alive while it waits.” — Hope Jahren


84. “Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, but actually you have been planted.” — Christine Caine


85. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” Abraham Lincoln


86. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder


87. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – The Notebook


88. “Keep planting and sowing, living and knowing: beautiful things take time, and that is okay.” ~ Morgan Harper Nichols


89. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” – Katharine Lee Bates


90. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther


91. “The earth is a garden, and we are its stewards.”


92. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson


93. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ” D. H. Lawrence


94. “Love grows when kindness is planted.”


95. “A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ” Dogen


96. “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” – Roland R. Kemler


97. “One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”


98. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”


99. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”


100. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Khalil Gibran


101. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.


102. “A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”


103. “All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” — Chinese proverb


104. “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”


105. “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” – John Ruskin


106. “Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny. precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go.” – Anita Krizzan


107. Bloom where you’re planted. #tulips


108. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”


109. “He plants trees to benefit another generation. ” Caecilius Statius


110. “Weed it and reap.” Gardening Saying


111. Happiness blooms from within.


112. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – Noah from The Notebook


113. “If speaking kindly to plants makes them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.” – Unknown


114. Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. – Michael Garafalo


115. “Raff,' Katsa said, 'your problem is that your heart's not in it. We need to find something to strengthen your defensive resolve. What if you pretended he's trying to smash your favorite medicinal plant?'


116. “Flowers are happy things. ” P. G. Wodehouse


117. “To dwell is to garden.” Martin Heidegger


118. Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.” — Sakyong Mipham


119. “The plant is blind, but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.” – George Orwell


120. “Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” – Ralph Ransom


121. “Life is bare because we never plant it with seed. We never till its long rows…” – Muriel Strode


122. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon


123. “And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.”


124. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson


125. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb


126. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” – Ralph Ransom


127. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero


128. “If I could plant a flower for every time I miss you, I could walk through my garden forever.” ~ Anonymous


129. “All the explanations proposed…extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.”


130. “Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” – Bryant McGill


131. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau


132. “Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.” – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola


133. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.. — Nicholas Sparks


134. “I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.” – Allen Lacy


135. Introverted but willing to discuss plants


136. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.”- Matshona Dhliwayo


137. “Gardening is a form of creative expression, a way to connect with the earth and nurture new life.”


138. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long time ago.”


139. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” - Michael Jordan


140. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson


141. “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


142. “Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first. ” Gardening Saying


143. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson


144. “In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.” Frank McKinney Hubbard


145. “Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant — a seed — this plants the giant miracle.” — Ann Voskamp


146. “The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble. And if the tree takes root, it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.” – George Orwell


147. “I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.” Suzy Bogguss


148. “God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.” Author Unknown


149. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”


150. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ” —Maya Angelou


151. “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” - Unknown


152. “Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires”.


153. There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips


154. “The mighty drought could not decimate our roots hidden under the soil from years of suffering. We were plants; we learnt to survive!”


155. “In some native languages, the term for plants translates to ‘Those who take care of us.'” – Robin Wall Kimmerer


156. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.


157. “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese proverb


158. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” – May Sarton


159. “Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?”


160. “I’m not a plant person. I’m a plant killer. I think I have a problem.”


161. “Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.” — Gloria Gaither


162. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll


163. Can’t touch this


164. “My garden is my favorite teacher. ” Betsy Cañas Garmon


165. “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” Gertrude Jekyll


166. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.” Luther Burbank


167. “One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.”


168. “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”


169. “Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing.”


170. “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” – Charles Darwin


171. “The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry


172. “A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams.”Author unknown


173. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.”– Matshona Dhliwayo


174. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” ~ Nicholas Sparks


175. “Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones. ” Author Unknown


176. “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi


177. As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.” ― Sri Guru Granth Sahib


178. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson


179. “Farming is a profession of hope. “ Brian Brett


180. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn


181. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson


182. “Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.” — Terri Guillemets


183. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson


184. When the world wearies, and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier


185. Hang in there


186. Bloom where you’re planted, and your flower will be uniquely beautiful.


187. “Sometimes when in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, when actually you’ve been planted.’ - Christine Caine, author


188. “All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant.”


189. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” — Sigmund Freud


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


191. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.


192. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” —Andrea Gibson


193. “Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.”


194. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”


195. Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson


196. “Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.” – Astrid Alauda


197. “There can be no other occupation like gardening in which if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”- Mirabel Osler


198. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” Good Morning Quote


199. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” – Dr. SunWolf


200. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ” Mahatma Gandhi


201. “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller


202. “What’s up buttercup?” – Unknown


203. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later” – Og Mandino


204. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” — Lao Tzu


205. “The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence.” – Pablo Neruda


206. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.” – Luther Burbank


207. “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.” Aldo Leopold


208. Where flowers bloom so does hope. – Lady Bird Johnson


209. “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ” Hanna Rion


210. Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” — E.V.


211. “Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.” ― Floriano Martins


212. There can be no other occupation like gardening in which if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler


213. “There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden.” — Ernest Wilson


214. “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ” William Wordsworth


215. “Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.”


216. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson


217. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Chinese proverb


218. “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.” — Michael P. Garofalo


219. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”


220. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.”


221. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” Rabindranath Tagore


222. What are you planting in your mind this Tuesday - results or weeds?” - Unknown


223. “Plants can’t solve all problems, but they’re a great start.” – Anonymous


224. “When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ” Ramakrishna


225. “I have observed that the child, on condition that he is granted the freedom to work, learns, becomes cultured, absorbs knowledge and gains experiences that become embedded in his spirit. Like seeds planted in fertile ground, they soon germinate and bear fruit. ”


226. “Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.” ~ Og Mandino


227. “What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ” Charles Dudley Warner


228. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly


229. “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”


230. “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.”- Hermann J. Steinherr


231. “Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?”


232. “I’m a plant lady, not a plant killer. There’s a difference.”


233. “Plants and books are silent friends to mankind. The former grows silently to let you live. The latter grows you silently to live.” – Sridhar Movva


234. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi


235. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin


236. “I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. ” C. Z. Guest


237. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”


238. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll


239. Every time you plant a flower, you plant a little happiness along with it.


240. “All gardening is landscape painting.” — William Kent


241. “I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ” Joseph Addison


242. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plants, and that’s pretty much the same thing.


243. “I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. ” Novella Carpenter


244. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson


245. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”


246. “Plants are a reminder of the beauty and resilience of nature.”


247. “Long-term goals are like planting a tree that will bear fruits only after a few years. These trees take a long time to grow but they provide lasting benefits. Unlike the seasonal crop that gives you benefits only once, the trees keep bearing fruits year after year without much effort. However, you have to constantly work for a couple of years even when no fruit is in sight. You must have faith and the motivation to be able to put in continuous effort for a long time.”


248. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”


249. “Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ” Lindley Karstens


250. “How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.” — Walter Scott


251. “Plants are our silent partners in the dance of life.”


252. What happens in the greenhouse, stays in the greenhouse


253. “Happiness blooms from within.” – Unknown


254. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse


255. Plants are my soil mates


256. “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.”


257. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”


258. “God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”


259. “Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.” — Rumi


260. 35. “(Year of your baby’s birth) – the year I grow a human but still kill all the plants.”


261. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.” William Blake


262. “The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. ” Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America


263. “I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. ” Penelope Keith


264. “Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ” Dixie Lee Ray


265. “Stop believing everything you're told. Even if it seems to be reliable. People are sly, and fool others for several reasons. Capable humans know exactly how to do that.”


266. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”


267. “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” Liberty Hyde Bailey


268. “The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.” — Masanobu Fukuoka


269. “A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place but intends to stay.”


270. “Bloom where you are planted.”- 1 Corinthians 7:20-24


271. “It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season. ” Kate Morton


272. “We are all golden sunflowers inside.” – Allen Ginsberg


273. “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” Betsy Cañas Garmon


274. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ” Cicero


275. I’m rooting for you


276. “All gardening is landscape painting.”


277. "It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses"– George Eliot


278. Nature, Text, Grass, Green, Font, Grass family, Water, Plant, Morning, Terrestrial plant,


279. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook


280. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, writer


281. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare


282. “Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. ” William Cowper


283. “An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.” — Sharon Salzberg


284. You grow, girl.


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286. “A gardener’s best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook. ” Andy Tomolonis


287. “Plants are like little green hugs.”


288. “We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ” Evelyn Underhill


289. “Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.” — Myron Kaufmann


290. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”


291. “Use plants to bring life. ” Douglas Wilson


292. “Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow”


293. “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ” Michael Pollan


294. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. - Maya Angelou


295. “Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow.”


296. “Appreciate the plant that grows in your balcony only for you” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor


297. “Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones


298. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


299. “My plants are my therapy. They listen to all of my problems and never judge me.”


300. “If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.”


301. “Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.” – Aberjhani


302. “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”


303. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”


304. The rain is a beautiful thing, It makes trees and plants very happy, It makes animals very happy, It makes people very happy too. – Linda Ronstadt


305. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet


306. Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.” —Marilynne Robinson


307. “Plants are like people: they’re all different and a little bit strange.”


308. “Always rooting for you.” – Unknown


309. “I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child.


310. “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” — Erma Bombeck


311. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” Michael Pollan


312. “Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.”


313. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”


314. “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” — Minnie Aumonier


315. “A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ” Gertrude Stein


316. “I have no plants in my house. They won’t live for me.”


317. “A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” Liberty Hyde Bailey


318. “A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies”


319. Just so you know, I’ve got a thing for plants


320. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."— Og Mandino


321. “The mighty drought could not decimate our roots hidden under the soil from years of suffering. We were plants. We learned to survive!” – Avijeet Das


322. “Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203)”


323. I’m rooting for my flowers to grow.


324. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”


325. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”


326. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” —Michael Jordan


327. The closest I am to being a parent is taking care of all of my plants.


328. “Plan a garden for the future, but expect it to evolve and need changing, despite your well laid-out plans. Such is the temperament of Mother Nature.” — Meredith Kirton


329. “Humans have been growing food for themselves since the dawn of time. Indeed, many plants have developed a dependance on us, just as some plants require digestion by birds to activate their seeds. We do our part by planting seeds in healthy soil, watering them, weeding them, and leaving them in peace. They return the favor by growing fruits and seeds and flowers that we like to eat.”


330. “Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.” – Susun Weed


331. You believe In God, for your part? ay? that He who makes, can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when they wish them finest.


332. “No one will understand a Japanese garden until you’ve walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there’s no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. “ J. Carter Brown


333. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” —The Notebook


334. “Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.” – Jonathan Haidt


335. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ” May Sarton


336. “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


337. I like big plants and I cannot lie


338. “I have a black thumb, but I keep trying. I think it’s because I’m so forgetful. I water the plants, then forget I watered them, so I water them again. It’s like I’m trying to drown them.”


339. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.” — Andrea Gibson


340. “Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.” Marcelene Cox


341. “No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work.” — Jackie French


342. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” – E.V.


343. “I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”


344. “A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Saint Basil


345. “It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”


346. “When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” – Chinese Proverb


347. “It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ” Robert Louis Stevenson


348. I need a drink


349. “A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” – Terri Guillemets


350. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson


351. There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower,' he said to himself. 'They certainly do cheer you up.'


352. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” – Psalm


353. “It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had 20 or 30 years. It’s like seeing an old friend.” – Tasha Tudor


354. “All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant.” – Jay Kordich


355. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”


356. “Oopsie daisy!” – Unknown


357. You only need listen to yourselves. It reminds me of an old proverb: 'If and When were planted, and Nothing grew'. Catherine Pulsifer, If and When Were Planted


358. “From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ” Thomas Moore


359. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” – Wangari Maathai


360. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn


361. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” Rudyard Kipling


362. With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”― Rumi


363. “Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.” – Linda Solegato


364. Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.


365. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later -Og Mandino


366. “I like gardening — it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.” Alice Sebold


367. “If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”


368. “Plant a seed so your heart will grow.” – Hafez


369. “Gardens are a form of autobiography. ”


370. “The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ” George Bernard Shaw


371. “Bloom wherever you are planted.” — Unknown


372. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson


373. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. —Chinese Proverb


374. “The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ” Lillie Langtry


375. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”


376. “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton


377. “I plant sunflowers and get back daily joy.” – Nadine Locke


378. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. “Sigmund Freud


379. “No other life is as pure as the plants. It is no wonder we cannot understand them.”


380. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” – Steve Maraboli


381. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.”


382. “Always do your best.What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino


383. “A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies.” – Karthikeyan V.


384. If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. – Russell Page


385. “Live life in full bloom.” – Unknown


386. “Sometimes when you are in a dark place, you think you have been buried, but actually you have been planted.” — Christine Caine


387. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu


388. “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey


389. “There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”


390. “A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.”


391. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks


392. “We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” — John Lennon


393. Just because you’ve got a broken heart, doesn’t mean your tulips have to too. 😆 We’ve got the perfect mix of flowers, plants, and gifts for any occasion


394. "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ― David Bly


395. “Let nature be in your yard. ” Michael P. Garofalo


396. Flower, Cut flowers, Greeting, Text, Petal, Plant, Greeting card, Font, Rose, Flowering plant,


397. “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower shares a bit of knowledge. It becomes another’s smile at someone and receives a smile in return. These are to me continual spiritual exercises.” – Leo Buscaglia


398. “The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. ” Michael Pollan


399. “Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.” Wendell Berry


400. “Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.” – Michael Bassey Johnson


401. “We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”


402. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emmerson


403. “How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.” Benjamin Disraeli


404. “I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia. But mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” – David Hobson


405. “We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.” – Adolfo Perez Esquivel


406. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. - George Eliot.


407. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – The Notebook (read more quotes from The Notebook)


408. “Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.” – Edward Conze


409. “To say nothing of weeds—many of them being plants we used to value but no longer do. They don’t like to die out, you know.”


410. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”


411. “A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” – Beth Ditto


412. “I don’t have a green thumb. I have a brown thumb with some green paint on it.”


413. “I thought I was pretty cool until I realized plants can eat the sun and give out air.”


414. “Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.”


415. “A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”


416. “Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.”


417. “Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


418. “Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”


419. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – Nicholas Sparks


420. “The seeds of resilience are planted in the way we process the negative events in our lives.” — Sheryl Sandberg


421. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn


422. I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. – David Hobson


423. “Plant to breathe


424. She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.


425. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” –Chinese proverb


426. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” – Ken Petti


427. “It is not hard to start a small garden, all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant.”


428. “There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s.”


429. “What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.”


430. “Summer is coming so excited, I wet my plants!”


431. Let’s root for each other and watch each other grow


432. “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.” – Unknown


433. “Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. .” Georges Bernanos


434. “My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” — H. Fred Dale


435. Advice from a sunflower: Be bright, sunny, and positive. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head high.


436. What are you planting in your mind this Tuesday - results or weeds?


437. I’ll be planted right here.


438. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Luther Burbank


439. a bouquet of pink roses


440. Loving this week’s tulip designs. Choose from an assortment of stunning shade combinations—perfect for fall planting! #TulipsForever


441. “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” Elizabeth Lawrence


442. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson


443. The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson


444. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan


445. “If you’re not part of the solution, be part of the problem!”


446. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” ~Nelson Henderson


447. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a…


448. “Plants are like little green time machines, taking us back to a world where things grew and changed.” – Don Rathjen


449. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later” – Og Mandino


450. “In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”


451. “There can be no other occupation like gardening in which if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”


452. “I be-leaf in you.” – Unknown


453. “The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.” W. H. Davies


454. “Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ” Anne Raver


455. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” –Audrey Hepburn


456. The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin


457. “I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ” Reginald Farrer


458. “Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny. precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go.” — Anita Krizzan


459. “Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.”


460. “If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.”


461. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”


462. “If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”


463. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker


464. “Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together.”


465. “I once had a cactus. It died. And I got depressed because I thought, ‘Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.” – Demetri Martin


466. “I’m a plant mom. I talk to my plants and they talk back to me. I don’t know what they’re saying, but I’m pretty sure they’re cursing me in the plant.”


467. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -Og Mandino


468. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. – Ruth Stout


469. “Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way...”


470. “We can’t change people, but we can plant seeds that may one day bloom in them.” — Mary Davis


471. “Like people, plants respond to extra attention.”


472. “There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” Alfred Austin


473. “If you plant junk, don't expect to harvest jewels.”


474. If you don't plant the seeds of the result you want in life, in your mind,


475. “A flower is a smile from heaven.”


476. “I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”


477. The second best time is now.”


478. “Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.” – Jim Rohn


479. “The world is a garden, and those who tend it will reap its rewards.” – Chinese Proverb


480. “How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.” —Walter Scott


481. “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey


482. “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”


483. “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ” Liberty Hyde Bailey


484. “Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.” – May Sarton


485. “The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.” Thomas Jefferson, The Quotable Jefferson


486. “There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. ” Ken Kesey


487. “I’m not a plant person. I’m a plant killer. But I’m working on it.”


488. Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.


489. ¨ Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets, their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming. ¨- Steve Maraboli


490. “We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”


491. “We know the tree will die someday, but we plant it anyway.”


492. Gardening is all about trusting in what the future holds.


493. “A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.” — John Ciardi


494. “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.” – Unknown


495. “Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”


496. “Do something today that will encourage you to blossom.” – Unknown


497. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan


498. “If you can't plant trees, just imagine how much farmers are doing you a favour by giving you food to survive”


499. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” Margaret Atwood


500. “I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ” Robert Breault


501. “Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.” – Jack Weatherford.


502. “What are you planting in your mind this Tuesday – results or weeds?” ~ Anonymous


503. What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.


504. I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. — Gloria Vanderbilt


505. “Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ” Thomas Fuller


506. “The roots of every plant seek out, from among the many substances which the soil contains, only those which they need. ”


507. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero


508. “Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Unknown


509. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett


510. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” – Laurie Jean Sennott


511. “I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”- John Steinbeck, East of Eden


512. “Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.”


513. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. ” Robert Breault


514. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb


515. “This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”


516. “One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” — John Mark Green


517. “I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.”


518. “It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.” James Douglas


519. “The world is a garden, and those who tend it will prosper.” – Proverb


520. “We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”


521. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”


522. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett


523. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” —Og Mandino


524. “Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.” Author Unknown


525. “No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however passive that mobility was. Once the first root is extended, the plant will never again enjoy any hope (however feeble) of relocating to a place less cold, less dry, less dangerous. Indeed, it will face frost, drought, and greedy jaws without any possibility of flight. The tiny rootlet has only once chance to guess what the future years, decades -- even centuries -- will bring to the patch of soil where it sits. It assesses the light and humidity of the moment, refers to its programming, and quite literally takes the plunge.”


526. “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle


527. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.”


528. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”


529. “Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.” Allan Armitage


530. “It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ” James Douglas


531. “Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” (Ralph Ransom)


532. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”


533. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.


534. “I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. ” Hayley Mills


535. (This year), the year I grow a human but still cannot keep any of my plants alive.


536. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen


537. “Life begins the day you start a garden.” — Chinese proverb


538. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino


539. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” — George Eliot


540. “If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey


541. “Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.”


542. “Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” — Hamilton, the Musical


543. “Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”


544. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”


545. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson


546. “We can’t change people, but we can plant seeds that may one day bloom in them.” – Mary Davis


547. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson


548. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” — Michael Pollan


549. “What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”


550. “God wants you to have the life that you are dreaming about, or else He would not have planted it in your mind.”


551. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” —Nelson Henderson


552. “Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit — I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.”


553. “In a flowerpot of love lives a beautiful tulip plant, and then was the passer-by with words to attract it; for, it was just like a passing glance and the sense of love, and they were both attracted to each other.” – Edward Kofi Louis.


554. Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton


555. “To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” – Russell Page


556. “In a flowerpot of love lives a beautiful tulip plant, and then was the passer by with words to attract it; for, it was just like a passing glance and the sense of love, and they were both attracted to each other.” – Edward Kofi Louis


557. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” B.C. Forbes


558. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks more deeply and bleeds more.”


559. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther


560. Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart – Karel Capek, The Gardener’s Year, 1931


561. “You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not only survive but bloom into a beautiful plant. That was me—my whole life.” – Jonathan Van Ness


562. “The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”


563. Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling


564. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


565. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”


566. “There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden.” – Ernest Wilson


567. “I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ” Robert Bridges


568. “All the explanations proposed seem to be only partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.” – Carl Sagan


569. “A weed is but an unloved flower. ” Ella Wheeler Wilcox


570. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buffett, investor


571. “Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”


572. Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. – Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897


573. “When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.”


574. “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. ” Gertrude Jekyll


575. “I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I’m like, ‘I’m going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!’ – Mosaku


576. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”


577. “Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.”


578. “Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world. Not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.


579. “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” Ruth Stout


580. “Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”


581. ‘”But plants grow again,” She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. “They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.”’ ― Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Consort


582. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but never grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”


583. “Janie ran to my side, where she tugged at the book eagerly as though she'd seen it before. "Flower book," she said, pointing to the cover.


584. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”


585. “Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.” — Florida Scott-Maxwell


586. “If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


587. “An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. ” Leslie Hall


588. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ” Michael Pollan


589. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.” – Nicholas Sparks


590. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” Carl Linnaeus


591. "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” – Robert Louis Stevenson


592. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” George Eliot


593. When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”


594. “Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. ” Doris Day


595. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” May Sarton


596. “I think you’re dandy, and I’m not lion!” – Unknown


597. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffett


598. When you plant a garden, you plant seeds of self-confidence, too.


599. Plants can’t solve all problems, but they’re a great start.


600. “Plant one on me!” – Unknown


601. “People are like plants. They grow. They change every day.” – Curtis Jackson


602. “I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.”


603. “The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. ” Stephen Gardiner


604. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” – Jim Carrey


605. “The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer…form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” – Andrew Jackson


606. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”


607. Share one of your favorite memories with your mother or daughter in the comment section below! To show her some extra love, gift her a potted plant or flowers to represent your ever-growing relationship.


608. If you don't plant the seeds of the result you want in life, in your mind, weeds will grow automatically. Mahesh Jethmalani, The Ladder of Success


609. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. ” Gertrude Jekyll


610. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther.


611. “You are enough for a plant like me to grow once and again.”


612. “To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.” — Marina Schinz


613. “Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.” — Anne Wareham


614. Be-leaf in yourself


615. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino


616. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”


617. “Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”


618. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson


619. “We can't stop the seasons' changing, but we can fix the Earth by replanting it. The world was created in perfect balance, but our wrong actions led to having freezing winters in some regions and burning hot summers in others.


620. “I have enough plants” said no one ever


621. “Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets.Begin again.” – Cora Coralina


622. “I have no plants in my house. They won’t live for me.” – Jerry Seinfeld


623. “I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.” — Gloria Vanderbilt


624. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson


625. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long time ago. - Warren Buffett


626. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."— Audrey Hepburn


627. Turn up the sunshine and flowers, please.


628. “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Jorge Luis Borges


629. “Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!” – Israelmore Ayivor


630. “Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ” Robert Fortune


631. “Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.”


632. “If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.” — Lord Chesterfield


633. “Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it’s inevitable we’ll respect people.” — Audrey Hepburn


634. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem


635. “Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”


636. “A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ” Letitia Elizabeth Landon


637. “Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.”


638. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."-Og Mandino


639. “Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest can either be flowers or weeds.” — William Wordsworth


640. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ” — Ralph Ransom


641. The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll


642. “Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.”


643. “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” –Eckhart Tolle


644. “Don’t wait for someone to bring flowers. You have to plant for your own garden and decorate your own soul. Have a great day!”


645. “One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.” ― Mike Bond


646. “The next generation will never be able to understand the joy of planting a tree and watching it grow.”


647. “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” —Hermann J. Steinherr


648. With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.


649. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” — Robert Brault


650. “Stop texting first and see how many dead plants you’ve been watering.”


651. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek proverb


652. “Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see them remain forever and a day.” – Henry Sherman Adams


653. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan


654. “Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


655. So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges


656. Sorry I am late. I had to buy new plants


657. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever. ― Nicholas Sparks


658. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb


659. “Gardens are a form of autobiography.” — Sydney Eddison


660. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plants, and that’s pretty much the same thing.” – Anonymous


661. My mother’s plant suddenly came back to life after a couple of days. He rose from the dead.


662. Don't forget to give yourself time to grow, too.


663. “I love you bunches.” – Unknown


664. “As a man thinketh, so is he?


665. “Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.”


666. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Greek Proverb


667. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” – Robert Brault


668. “Like people, plants respond to extra attention.” — H. Peter Loewer


669. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” -Audrey Hepburn.


670. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. —Michael Jordan


671. “We may think that we are nurturing our Garden but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us” – Jenny Uglow


672. The florist was so embarrassed that he wet his plants.


673. “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” — Leo Buscaglia


674. “I consider myself to be the most fortunate man ever to live on this earth because I get to hold the most beautiful woman on earth in my arms and plant kisses on her lips. I love you so dearly, my beloved wife. Happy birthday.”


675. The Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


676. “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” Janet Kilburn Phillips


677. “My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.” Ina Garten


678. “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ” Douglas Adams


679. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. ” Alfred Austin


680. “The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.”


681. “Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles. ” Greg Peterson


682. “How much light do plants need?


683. Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. – Marilynne Robinson


684. “Flowers are the most beautiful way to express love and appreciation.”


685. “That floral feeling.” – Unknown


686. I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. —Gloria Vanderbilt


687. “Gardening adds years to your life, and life to your years.” — Unknown


688. We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.” — John Lennon


689. “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. ” Zora Neale Hurston


690. Bloom where you’re planted.


691. “The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”


692. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero


693. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan


694. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” – Honore de Balzac


695. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


696. “We walked to a row of three stones: our grandmother and grandfather and, between them, our mother. There were crocuses and daffodils and snowdrops blooming on my mother's grave. Gran had always carefully tended it. After Sunday dinners, when we were little, Gran would put on her wide-brimmed gardening hat and gloves and take along her basket of garden tools and bring us down here. She would plant lavender petunias and purple bearded irises. She would deadhead the spent daylilies and pull up weeds on my mother's grave and on my great-grandmother Beulah's grave back in the corner. She barely touched my grandfather's grave, scratched in some monkey grass and ivy and told us even that was too good for him.”


697. “Garden as though you will live forever. ” Thomas Moore


698. “A garden always has a point.” Elizabeth Hoyt, The Raven Prince


699. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller


700. “I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: we have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms go away and come back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it still enriches the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.” – Glennon Doyle Melton


701. “I’m not a plant killer, I’m just a little forgetful with watering. I call it ‘assisted suicide’.”


702. “Plants are solar-powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen


703. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill


704. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln


705. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ” A. A. Milne


706. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” – Buddha


707. “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. ” Michael P. Garofalo


708. “In return, Joe taught Jay more about the garden. Slowly the boy learned to tell lavender from rosemary from hyssop from sage. He learned to taste soil- a pinch between the finger and thumb slipped under the tongue, like a man testing fine tobacco- to determine its acidity. He learned how to calm a headache with crushed lavender, or a stomachache with peppermint. He learned to prepare skullcap tea and chamomile to aid sleep. He learned to plant marigolds in the potato patch to discourage parasites and to pick nettles from the top to make ale and to fork the sign against the evil eye if ever a magpie flew past.”


709. “I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.”- Louie Schwartzberg


710. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


711. “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” Alice Walker


712. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson


713. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” - Warren Buffett


714. “Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind.


715. “Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.”


716. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.”


717. Time spent tending to your garden is never time wasted.


718. “In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ” Abram L. Urban


719. “Sometimes, you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.”


720. Good things grow here


721. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran


722. “The garden is the poor man’s apothecary.” German Proverb


723. “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” – French Proverb


724. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.


725. “What in carnation?” – Unknown


726. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne


727. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”


728. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin


729. “I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ” Abraham Lincoln


730. “The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it’s planted in stone.”


731. “All the explanations proposed…extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.” — Carl Sagan.


732. “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”—Vietnamese Proverb


733. “Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.”


734. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.


735. “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. ” May Sarton


736. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. ” Rudyard Kipling


737. “Never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are our realities in waiting. In dreams, we plant the seeds of our future.”


738. “Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ” Jean-Jacques Rousseau


739. “You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows. But you can’t just wait around. You have to water it and take care of it.” – Bootsy Collins


740. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ” —Ralph Ransom


741. “Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.”


742. “I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” – Emily Carr


743. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle


744. “We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”


745. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” – Therese of Lisieux


746. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” – Clare Ansberry


747. “I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” Walt Disney


748. “We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.” – Desmond Tutu


749. Flowers recharge at power plants.


750. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” – Mitch Hedberg


751. “Plants stand still and wait to be counted.” – John L. Harper


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753. “A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”


754. “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”


755. “My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.”


756. “The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.” – Lester Cole


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758. “Like people, plants respond to extra attention.” – H. Peter Loewer


759. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo


760. Petal, Flower, Pink, Text, Plant, Morning, Font, Flowering plant, Rose, Spring,


761. “He who plants a tree plants hope.” – Lucy Larcom


762. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett


763. Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. – Astrid Alauda


764. “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” Zora Neale Hurston


765. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted


766. “Gardening is a way to connect with the present moment and find joy in the simple things.”


767. “The beauty of the natural world has been a continual source of inspiration throughout the ages.” – Rachel Carson


768. Thank you pastor for the seed you planted and the disciples you nurtured. You are celebrated!


769. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”


770. 99 Problems but a plant ain’t one


771. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” – Shannon Mullen


772. “Earth laughs in flowers.”


773. “Every flower blooms at its own pace.” – Suzy Kassem


774. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” ~ George Eliot


775. “I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don’t like tidying up the garden afterwards. “ Jamaica Kincaid


776. Nothing feels like home more than a garden full of gorgeous plants.


777. To sow, we must open our hands.”


778. Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny, precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go. — Anita Krizzan


779. We’re planting lots of Tulips this spring. Find your favorite and send a bunch to that special someone! : )


780. “Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment.” – Sanchita Pandey


781. “Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ” Mrs. C.W. Earle,Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897


782. “You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.” — Michael Portillo


783. The florist offered me five roses for less than a dollar. He said it is an offer I plant refuse.


784. You are enough for a plant like me to grow once and again.


785. “A flower is a smile from heaven.” – Unknown


786. “One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. ” Robert Fortune


787. “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” – Hermann J. Steinherr


788. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”- Audrey Hepburn


789. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”


790. “Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted. The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer.” – Israelmore Ayivor


791. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” — George Eliot


792. Pot it like it’s hot


793. “Plant love, let it sprout.”


794. “Most plants taste better when they’ve had to suffer a little.” – Diana Kennedy


795. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”- Robert Louis Stevenson


796. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” — Claude Monet


797. “Gardening is cheaper than therapy – and you get tomatoes.” — Anonymous


798. “How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ” Alexander Smith


799. “A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” — Beth Ditto


800. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ” Pablo Neruda


801. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.”


802. “I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.”


803. “I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. ” Jacqueline Bisset


804. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”– Audrey Hepburn


805. “Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ” Marcelene Cox


806. “Plants are like people: they’re all different and a little bit strange.” — John Kehoe


807. “Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”


808. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants


809. “What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough


810. If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carl Linnaeus


811. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson


812. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” – Robert Louis Stevenson


813. Bloom where you are planted.


814. “A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.”


815. “Plants” by “Marco Verch Professional Photographer“, licensed under CC BY 2.0


816. “But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.” Edna Ferber


817. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse


818. That song is sweetest, bravest, best, Which plucks the thistle-barb of care From a despondent brother's breast, And plants a sprig of heart's-ease there.


819. The Roses are red. The plants are green. My buds are my babies and I am their queen.


820. A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams.


821. You are beautiful no matter what shape you are


822. “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”


823. “I’m so excited for spring I think I wet my plants.” - Unknown


824. “Take time to smell the roses.” – Proverb


825. Keep going, keep growing


826. “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” Minnie Aumonier


827. “We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us. We are the same as everything.” – Gautama Buddha


828. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” – Miranda Kerr


829. “A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.”


830. “All gardening is landscape painting. ” William Kent


831. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”


832. “She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where I planted my seeds.”


833. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson


834. “There is a reason why I have a lot of plants growing inside of my home.”


835. “Thanks a bunch!” – Unknown


836. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”


837. “The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.” — Sandra Kring


838. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson


839. We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.


840. “Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way.” – Karthikeyan V.


841. “Gardening is a form of meditation, a way to connect with nature and find peace within.”


842. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” Claude Monet


843. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb


844. “A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.” – Alexander Smith


845. “My mother is my root. my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Unknown


846. What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.” – Rumi


847. “All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” Chinese Proverb


848. “When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one.” – Unknown


849. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling


850. You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. – Walter Hagen


851. “You grow girl.” – Unknown


852. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.


853. “Running my hands over the dirt, I suddenly feel an unfamiliar, electric charge buzzing through my fingertips. I jump back, hands trembling.


854. “There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”


855. “Growth takes time. Be patient. And while you’re waiting, pull a weed.”


856. Wash your hands, water your plants


857. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet


858. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson


859. “I think plants are smarter than people. People only grow when they’re watered and nurtured. A plant will grow in a crack in a concrete wall, just to live.”


860. “We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to ” Voltaire


861. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson


862. “I planted these roses so I can give you a bouquet of them, that is the reality of my life.”


863. I like gardening — it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold


864. “I’m not a plant person. I’m a plant killer. I think it’s because I have a black thumb. Or maybe it’s because I’m not really good at following instructions. Either way, I keep trying.”


865. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. “ Dalai Lama


866. “I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. “ Miranda Richardson


867. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.


868. “If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow. Imagine what speaking kindly to yourself can do.”


869. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”


870. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” — Ralph Ransom


871. “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.” – Joyce Kilmer


872. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon


873. "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert


874. “A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one”


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


876. Today I plant the seeds for the life I long to live.


877. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo


878. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”


879. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”


880. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” Alfred Austin


881. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. – Michael Jordan


882. “Daisy me rollin’.” – Unknown


883. “Let’s put our tulips together.” – Unknown


884. “If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you’ll get good things back. That’s part of our responsibility as entertainers.” – Ben Vereen


885. “Introduce hanging plants...


886. Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, but actually you have been planted. Christine Caine


887. “I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. ” Barbra Streisand


888. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”


889. “Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit — I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.” — Sara Moss-Wolfe


890. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. ” Rabindranath Tagore


891. “Bloom where you are planted.” – Unknown


892. “I planted the seeds of peace, but I’m the one who pays the price of war. ” – Wilbur Soot


893. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.


894. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ” Doug Larson


895. “You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted.” – Cory Booker


896. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson


897. Gardening is making art with materials from Mother Nature.


898. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. ” - David Bly


899. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” —Nelson Henderson"


900. “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ” Alfred Austin

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