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.

Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow. Hafez
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens. Costa Georgiadis Costa Georgiadis
Is that true? Plants make women comfortable? Well, maybe if I had plants I'd still be married. Marc Lawrence
And you plant your fields when the spring is tender / When the summer beats down, you pray for rain / You hope for the harvest and the long cold winter / And then you plant your fields again Donny R Lowery
Show some love back to your hometown / Fall in love, plant some seeds / Carve some names in the family tree / Raise your kids, love your wife Brett James
Near the town where we were living / Was a warm and fragrant smell / Of the orchid we had planted / Now a forest tall and well James Mcmorrow
Country boy, you got work to do / Country boy, in the mornin' dew / You gotta cut the weeds, you gotta plant the seed / There's many a row you know you gotta hoe Johnny R. Cash
Gonna make a lot of money, gonna go up North / I'll plant and I'll harvest what the earth brings forth Bob Dylan
Plant your rows straight and long / Temper them with prayer and song / Mother Earth will make you strong / If you give her love and care David Mallett
Let's plant a tree together / Maybe we can make it grow / If not now then maybe never Timothy P. O'Brien
If love was a flower I'd spread the petals about the planet / And plant seeds throughout every city and country / Even in those who do not want me J Jarrett
When it's twilight on the trail / And my voice is still / Please plant this heart of mine Underneath the lonesome pine on the hill Louis Alter
At other times you helped me plant the seed / No matter how small the task, you did just as I asked / And thanks to you these souls have been set free Davinche
Plant a seed and it will grow Some things I know / There's some things in life I need Water to drink, air to breathe Burton Collins
Love is like a garden in a hard piece of ground / The wind is gonna blow, and the sun will beat down / You better be sure before you plant that first seed / To give that garden all the attention she needs Walt Aldridge
God, what a joy it is to plant a tree / And from the sallow earth to watch it rise / Lifting its emerald branches to the skies Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Its strength and glory waxing with each spring / Yes, 'tis a goodly, and a gladsome thing / To plant a tree. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nature has many marvels; but a tree / Seems more than marvellous. It is divine / So generous, so tender, so benign. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But none ever trembled and panted with bliss / In the garden, the field, or the wilderness / Like a doe in the noontide with love’s sweet want / As the companionless Sensitive Plant. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. Luther Burbank
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. Dogen Zenji
If we had paid no more attention to out plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. Luther Burbank
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of security and joy. Luis Barragan
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking around your green beans. Marcelene Cox
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is like the seed put in the soil - the one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B.C. Forbes
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Carolus Linnaeus