Best Planting Quotes

143 Planting quotes by 119 unique authors

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. — Jennifer Granholm
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. — Margaret Fuller
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden… — Jamaica Kincaid
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just… — Jane Campion
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this… — Dogen
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look… — Charles Dickens
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am… — Gabrielle Hamilton
I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well… — Cassandra Danz
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of… — Barbara Kingsolver
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing. — Solomon
God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you… — Jim Rohn
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same… — Unknown Author
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home — Ulysses S. Grant
Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There… — Milton H. Erickson
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts,… — Alexander Trocchi
There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another,… — Stanley Crawford
I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow. — Joe Lando
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed… — Unknown Author
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and… — May Sarton
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of… — Thornton Wilder
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting… — Unknown Author

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