FAMOUS QUOTE ABOUT PLANTS

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

“Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift.” – Gertrude Jekyll

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

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” – Mulan

“Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” – Unknown

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

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The garden is a love song, a duet between a human and Mother Nature.” – Jeff Cox FAMOUS OPTIMISM QUOTES

“Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.” – Paracelsus

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

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” – Rumi

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The planting of a tree is a gift for the future.” – Richard Louv

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

“The beautiful spring came; and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs

“In every gardener, there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.” – Robert Brault

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

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” – Irving Berlin

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare