Plant Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Plant

Please enjoy these Plant Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

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

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

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

What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino

It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov

Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
- Confucius

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

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

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone,
play a slide trombone, plant a small tree,
good God, now you're free.
- Ray Manzarek

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers,
so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Bricks to all greenhouses!
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I see humanity now as one vast plant,
needing for its highest fulfillment only love,
the natural blessings of the great outdoors,
and intelligent crossing and selection.
- Luther Burbank

If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung

You can plant a dream.
- Anne Campbell

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
- Orson Scott Card

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

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
- Dorothy Malone

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

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

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

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

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
- Carolus Linnaeus

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again,
it will do nothing but good.
- Michael Fish

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of improved plant breeding,
apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Luther Burbank

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

We dried continuously day and night.
We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
- Orville Redenbacher

I spend a great deal of time with the President.
We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship.
I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
- Dan Quayle

Men are mortal.
So are ideas.
An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering.
Otherwise both will wither and die.
- B. R. Ambedkar

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

The offshore ocean area under U.S.
jurisdiction is larger than our land mass,
and teems with plant and animal life,
mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
- Tom Allen

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions;
and the plant is,
to a landscape artist, not only a plant -
rare,
unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance -
but it is also a color,
a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
- Roberto Burle Marx

We're not that far from being able to plant images,
memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
- Douglas Trumbull

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking
a plant to discuss horticulture.
- Jean Cocteau

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope,
even the ruins to which it clings.
- Gustave Flaubert

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
- Samuel Daniel

His heart was like a sensitive plant,
that opens for a moment in the sunshine,
but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger,
or the lightest breath of wind.
- Anne Bronte

Somali is turning into a desert.
Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato,
it's so crowded.
- Jim Fowler

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

No computer, no gadget, no trickery.
I am an animal, it is a plant.
I will beat the weed!
- Matthew McConaughey

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant
can be stored under a desk.
- Ronald Reagan

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity
because it has mountains,
desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
- Saadi

A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself
became of secondary and almost minimal interest.
- Bill Munson

By depending on the great, The small may rise high.
See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
- Saskya Pandita

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms
a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything
needed for its fulfillment.
- Robert Collier

Plant diseases, drought, desolation,
despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages -
and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
- Norman Borlaug

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country,
but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical
crop to Illinois farmers.
- John Shimkus

I have learned how to plant coastal hay,
fertilize and bale it.
- Janine Turner

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing
was distinctively plant or animal;
that there were real and profound differences between the two,
if only they could be seized.
- Asa Gray

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall.
I can build more power plants.
In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.
- Gray Davis

The Lord called me to plant a church.
- Bobby Rush

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant.
Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
- Steve Lacy

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

None of us knew what this power plant looked like.
We had no schematic drawing.
- William Scranton

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like
Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base,
and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
- Jose Saramago

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
- Sophocles

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first
glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe
and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
- Carolus Linnaeus

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain
words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice,
some uplift of the heart and spirit.
- Robert MacNeil

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel,
we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
- Moshe Dayan

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility.
Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
- Robert Browning

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself.
He plants it for posterity.
- Alexander Smith

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having
so much pleasure over the years,
asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and
then watching its responses.
- Barbara McClintock

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than
a plant can discuss horticulture.
- Jean Cocteau

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie