No matter how modern we get, no screen will ever give us the peace that greenery does. Today I bring to you plant quotes to appreciate the blessing that plants, trees, and flowers are.
We ignore what are given. Can you imagine a world without plants? Concrete jungles look ambitious, but serenity trumps the height of the tallest skyscrapers.
What is beautiful is that we can not only observe and relish in the beauty of nature but be a part of it, and grow it with our own hands.
I hope that these plant quotes will not only bloom gratitude in your heart but also inspire you to put your hands into the soil and decorate your life with green beings.
Plant Quotes
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir
“In some Native languages, the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren’t important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”
― Charles Dowding
“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”
― George Orwell
“Plants don’t have a brain because they are not going anywhere.”
― Robert Sylwester
“Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.”
― May Sarton
“There’s something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri
“It is not hard to start a small garden, all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
“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.”
― George Orwell
“Gardening gives you an appreciation for the strength of life, but it also shows you its fragility.”
― Matt Puchalski
Quotes for Plant Lovers
“Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.”
― Michael Garafalo
“Protect us bees,
Don’t burn our hives.
Protect us bees
And spare our lives.
We pollinate trees,
And now you know,
Without us bees,
Some plants won’t grow.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Bring outdoor life into the home.”
― Steven Magee
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
― Audrey Hepburn
“Plant to breathe
Plant to cool down the earth
Plant to heal yourself, physically and mentally
Plant to regain balance
Plant to live”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
“If you want your children to be loving and compassionate, allow them to appreciate the earth and care for the living beings around them.”
― Shree Shambav
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
― May Sarton
“Don’t remorse over dead flowers. Have the patience to plant seeds again.”
― Sarvesh Jain
“When the world wearies, and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
― Minnie Aumonier
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
― Henri Matisse
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.”
― Michael Pollan
“Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.”
― Linda Solegato
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
― Janet Kilburn Phillips
“There can be no other occupation like gardening in which if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”
― Mirabel Osler
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
― Walter Hagen
“The Earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
― Janet Kilburn Phillips
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
― Lady Bird Johnson
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Greek Proverb
“I like gardening — it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”
― Alice Sebold
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
― Gertrude Jekyll
“Garden as though you will live forever.”
― William Kent
Plant Sayings
“Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
― E.V.
“Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.”
― Astrid Alauda
“The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.”
― Eliud Kipchoge
“We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.”
― Adolfo Perez Esquivel
“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.”
― Alfred Austin
“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.”
― Danny Boyle
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
― George Eliot
“A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.”
― Beth Ditto
“When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.”
― Monty Don
“I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.”
― George Harrison
“He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.”
― Thomas Fuller
“A plant is the most cliché 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.”
― Bobby Berk
“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.”
― Leo Buscaglia
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
― Luther Burbank
“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.”
― Lucy Larcom
“Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
“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.”
― Lee Hsien Loong
“Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”
― Ralph Ransom
“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.”
― Penelope Keith
“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
“Like people, plants respond to extra attention.”
― H. Peter Loewer
“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.”
― Bootsy Collins
“Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing.”
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen