Plant Quotes - Page 13

• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

  Alexander Pope

  Garden, Genius, Paint

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Garden, Miracle

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• If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

  Robert Brault

  Garden, Joy, Imagine

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• I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Weed, Garden, Names

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Garden, Greedy

  May Sarton (2015). “Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• With plants, persuasion is better than force.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Garden, Persuasion, Force

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• What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Weed, Garden, Definitions

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• It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

  Clare Leighton

  Garden, Tree, Bulbs

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• 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

  Patience, Eye, Garden

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• 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

  Love, Jobs, Garden

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

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• A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

  Jeff Cox

  Love, Work, Garden

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• The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Garden, Law

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• Those who plant trees plant hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Garden, Tree, Plant A Tree

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• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

  Robert Fulghum

  Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Garden, Landscape, Composition

  Christopher Tunnard (2014). “Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Rocks, Water

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".

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• Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

  Tom Jones

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Vegetables

  Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones (2000). “The Fantasticks”, p.92, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Believe, Maturity

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Humorous

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• Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

  Paulo Coelho

  Animal, Light, Bird

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

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• It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Science, Eggs, Firsts

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