Plants growing Quotes

16 quotes from 16 authors

If you love watching seedlings push through soil, these thoughts will resonate. Sixteen authors describe a garden’s quiet patience, the warmth that fuels growth, and how moral values need light to flourish—like a plant under a tree. The mix of practical care and philosophy gives a fresh view on nurturing life.

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Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

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“She’d been surprised to learn it had a semi-arid climate, with cactus plants growing right beside palm trees.”

Bettye Griffin

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Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and…

Henry Ward Beecher

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We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out…

Edward James Salisbury

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By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending…

Monty Don

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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is…

Chogyam Trungpa

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Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,…

Alasdair Gray

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Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing…

Allan Savory

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“To look after a garden involves a kind of getting to know that is somehow always in process. It entails refining and…

Sue Stuart-Smith

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“fundamental link between our economic and ecological cycles.” And the importance of recharging the soil, to keep the ground covered and get…

Judith D. Schwartz

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“Nature grows where the atmosphere is conducive – a bit of oxygen, soil, moisture and we see plants growing. Even between the…

Sukant Ratnakar

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I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the…

Suzanne Collins

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“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they…

C. JoyBell C

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Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants…

Robert Aris Willmott

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“I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to…

Brian Awehali

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“Freddy and his brother Tesoro have not seen each other in five years, and they sit at the kitchen table in Freddy's…

Ray Gonzalez

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