Plants And Life Quotes:

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

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

- Og Mandino

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Life Changing, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Motivational Images

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

topic: Eye, Garden, Joy, Planting A Garden, Plants And Life

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Weed, Garden, Skills, Survival Skills, Planting A Garden

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Garden, People, Tree, Inspirational Gardening, Plants And Life

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

topic: Friendship, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Making Friends, Courteous

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Men, Garden, Perfection, Inspirational Gardening, Inspirational Nature

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Natural Environment, Planting A Garden

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Uplifting, Men, Soul, Everyman, Plants And Life

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

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

- Erma Bombeck

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Humorous, Medical Doctor, Medical Education

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

- Edward Steichen

source: Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

topic: Nature, Real, Light, Foliage, Plants And Life

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

- Arthur Young

topic: Inspirational, Sleep, Animal, Plants And Life, Vitamins And Minerals

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Men, Sacred, Ethics, Such Is Life, Plants And Animals

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

- Jean Giraudoux

source: Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

topic: Flower, Example, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming, Wildflowers

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Flower, Long, Spontaneous, Wildflowers, Wild Free

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

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

topic: Love, Jobs, Garden, Planting A Garden, Plants And Life

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: Men, Justice, Tree, Old Trees, Plants And Life

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

- Carl Linnaeus

topic: Garden, Tree, Plant, Dead Trees, Planting A Garden

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Luigi Pirandello

topic: Life, Men, Knowing, Plants And Life

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Funny, Weed, Wedding, Plants And Life

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

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Spring, Autumn, Planting Seeds, Inspirational Gardening

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

- Thomas Moore

topic: Sleep, Secret, Jasmine, Plants And Life

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

topic: Sweet, Mistake, Home, Landscape Architecture, Organic Architecture