Chartreuse Quote by Allen Lacy

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

— Peter Smithers

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

— John Kehoe

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those…

— Margaret Fuller

Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to…

— Madison Grant

“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their green palms…

— Rob Dunn

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything…

— Karl Blossfeldt

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular…

— Ayn Rand

“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a…

— Diane Ackerman

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

— Laozi

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

People are like leaves from the start were green and fine but in the end will wither and die

— Thea Reynes