Plant Quotes

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. (Confucius)
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. View quote
George Eliot
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. View quote
Jean Cocteau
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. View quote
John Lennon
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. View quote
Wangari Maathai
We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. View quote
Martin Luther
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. View quote
Ronald Reagan
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that. View quote
James Woolsey
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. View quote
George Eliot
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. View quote
Orson Scott Card
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. View quote
Og Mandino
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. (Napoleon Hill)
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. View quote
Bob Marley
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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