Plant Quotes - Page 22

• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Roots, Growing

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• Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Curiosity, Littles

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• You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

  Monty Don

  Beauty, Beautiful, Educational

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Suicide, Suicidal, House

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• 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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