Plant Sayings and Quotes

It’s impossible to reap the fruits of harvest without first planting the seeds. Similarly we only get out of life what we put in. Cultivate your own garden of success with the collection of wise and insightful plant quotes below.

A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world. James Hutton
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. Karl Blossfeldt
They are like to plants that have grown around each other- they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time. Lauren Oliver
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. Henry David Thoreau
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. Henry Ward Beecher
I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun. Carole King
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one. Priyansh Shah
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was. Kate McGahan
Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere. Robert Sylwester
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water. Desmond Tutu
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. Ken Kesey
Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment Sanchita Pandey
Flowers were meant to give love and be loved. Anthony T. Hincks
Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Also, Moss liked to rescue whatever animal or plant needed it. She believed they had earned it. Jeff VanderMeer
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
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. Voltaire
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
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
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Zora Neale Hurston
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
How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend. Lucy Maud Montgomery
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. Denise Levertov
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. Arnold Toynbee
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. Eckhart Tolle
All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant Jay Kordich