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Plants Quotes by Robert Fortune
- Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as…
- The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at…
- The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they…
- We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at…
- So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his…
More Plants Quotes
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and… — Seneca the Younger
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough