77 Plant Quotes About Those Green Friends (2024)

You can’t not marvel mother nature and plants are a big magical beauty of it. Aren’t they simply remarkable with the scent of soil bringing you closer to life? It is the entire process of planting seeds and seeing the miraculous outcome that will not only brighten your daily life but teach you many aspects of it, such as planting anything kind or of goodness and just letting it grow. The splendor and exquisiteness of such green and colorful elegance in your garden, inside your home or in forests, is a reminder of breathing and life and many renowned personalities around the world coincide with it.

Both loving and caring for plants is essential as it is for people, which is why famous people have wisely made their own statements. Continue reading to find a a wonderful selection of quotes from poets, novelists, song writers and more. Share your favorite plant quote with friends, family and loved ones so to be inspired and learn from nature.

Table of Contents

• Short Quotes for Plant Lovers
• Planting Seeds Quotes
• Inspirational Plant Quotes
• Tree Planting Quotes
• Funny Plant Quotes
• Famous Plant Quotes
• Poetic Quotes About Plants

Short Quotes for Plant Lovers

• Like people, plants respond to extra attention. H. Peter Loewer
• Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants. Jonathan Haidt
• I’m like a plant, I reach for the sun. Carole King
• Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow. Hafez
• Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower. Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. Ken Kesey
• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. Desmond Tutu
• Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant. Barbara Damrosch
• Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. Linda Solegato

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Zora Neale Hurston
• All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant. Jay Kordich
• People are like plants: They grow; they change every day. Curtis Jackson
• Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. Susun Wee
• Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change. May Sarton
• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. Desmond Tutu
• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A. Milne
• Succulents are planttastic. Unknown
• The σecret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. Luther Burbank
• Gardening is the work of a lifetime: you never finish. Oscar De La Renta
• A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. Alexander Smith

• When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. Linda Solegato
• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. Claude Monet
• If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. Henry David Thoreau
• If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
• If these are the achievements of man, give me the achievements of geraniums. Beverley Nichols
• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Knowledge is a plant of slow growth. Thomas Cooper
• It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had twenty or thirty years. It’s like seeing an old friend. Tasha Tudor
• I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. Herbert Rappaport
• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon
• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Edward Abbey

Planting Seeds Quotes

• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
• What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart
• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius
• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
• He who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
• A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land. Habeeb Akande
• Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing. B. J. Fogg
• 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
• If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you’ll get good things back. That’s part of our responsibility as entertainers. Ben Vereen
• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. Dorothy Day

Inspirational Plant Quotes

• Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way. Karthikeyan V
• So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges
• The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. George Orwell
• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown
• 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
• That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth. Guru Nanak
• When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier
• I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. Roland A. Browne

• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
• 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
• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. Margaret Fuller

Tree Planting Quotes

• He that plants trees, loves others besides himself. Thomas Fuller
• He who plants a tree, plants a hope. Lucy Larcom
• To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world. Russell Page
• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
• A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek proverb
• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett

Funny Plant Quotes

• My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck
• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Doug Larson
• You can never see a plant grow, but they do. Carol Plum-Ucci
• Plant lady is the new cat lady. Unknown

Famous Plant Quotes

• 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. John Lennon
• 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
• I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. John Steinbeck
• 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
• The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan
• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln
• Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Jean Cocteau
• To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. Leonardo da Vinci

Poetic Quotes About Plants

• In the dim
  rooms of my house they won’t thrive
  but I’ll give them enough love
  to ensure their survival.
  Tony Connor
• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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