Gardening Quote by Bettany Hughes

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

— Matthew Henry

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

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.

— Piet Oudolf

“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants solved the…

— Richard M. Ketchum

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing…

— John Muir

One reason we would use plant medicine: to be able to take care of the body as a whole. Another reason is that it…

— Karen Rose

“In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all comfortable conclusions…

— Richard Sibbes

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future,…

— Melissa Etheridge

“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of…

— Michael Pollan

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

— Roddy Llewellyn