Best Planting Words
143 Planting quotes by 119 unique authors
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I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months…
— Helen Mirren
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because…
— Howard Schultz
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions,…
— David Suzuki
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am…
— Nhat Hanh
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Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded,…
— Tana French
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them…
— Peter S. Beagle
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
— Haruki Murakami
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Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed.…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
— Michael Pollan
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The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost…
— George Orwell
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow…
— Willa Cather
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...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we…
— Wangari Maathai
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical…
— William Bennett
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My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking,…
— Therese Fowler
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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick,…
— John Ortberg
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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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