Person Quote by Barbara McClintock

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.

— Anodea Judith

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

— Ralph Ransom

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

— Reginald Farrer

“When I was ten, my mother got me a subscription to a website called Seeds Anonymous,” I said. “Every month I would get an…

— Colleen Hoover

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems

— Andrea Jones

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience,…

— David Hobson

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

— Barbara McClintock

Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as…

— Percy Julian

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

— Richard Evans Schultes

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

— Corneille Ewango

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso