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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
He who plants a tree, plants a hope. — Lucy Larcom
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. — Doug Larson
Those who plant trees plant hope. — Lucy Larcom
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion… — Robert Fulghum
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed. — Gertrude Jekyll
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as… — Penelope Hobhouse
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups… — Russell Page
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. — Aldo Leopold
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. — William Arthur Ward
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. — Robert Collier
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime… — Unknown Author
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he… — John Evelyn
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die. — Leon Brown
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig… — Unknown Author
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants… — Henryk Skolimowski
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. — Unknown Author
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of… — John Ruskin
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if… — Unknown Author
If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant… — Lee Trevino

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