Best Planting Quotes
143 Planting quotes by 119 unique authors
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Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.
— Jennifer Granholm
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
— Margaret Fuller
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
— Solomon
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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
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Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
— Nora Roberts
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I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same…
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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