69 Plant Quotes to Inspire Your Green Thumb and Plant Love

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

"A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house."

"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

"The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today."

"When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world."

"I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'"

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

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

"A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too."

"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."

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good."

"Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it."

"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."

"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."

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

"You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds."

"You can plant a dream."

"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."

"He who plants kindness gathers love."

"We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands."

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

"I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds."

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

"He that plants trees, loves others besides himself."

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

"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."

"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love."

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

"Like people, plants respond to extra attention."

"Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing."

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

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

"If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate."

"Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom."

"Anything I plant, to actually watch it grow gives me great pleasure."

"One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will."

"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."

"Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"If you grow the food you eat, it tastes better. Seasonal vegetables are grown at the right time, and you can make sure everything matures on the plant or on the tree. It's as fresh as you can get."

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

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."

"The divide between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in the mind, and the Western way of thinking is not good at accommodating that."

"People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way."

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

"It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species."

"Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain."

"A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this."

"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."

"Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it."

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

"I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems."

"From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!"

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

"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."