Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to…

— John Evelyn

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

— George Sand

Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower,…

— Peter Kreeft

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true…

— Daniel Abraham

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

— Saint Francis de Sales

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…

— Costa Georgiadis

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water…

— Nina Fedoroff

Those that hope little cannot grow much.

— George MacDonald

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

— Carl Linnaeus

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together,…

— Peace Pilgrim

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

— Anthony de Mello

If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it.

— Rick Warren

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

— Philip Wylie