Gardening Quote by Liberty Hyde Bailey

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of…

— Hope Jahren

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

— John Kehoe

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

— Roddy Llewellyn

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing…

— Alice Munro

Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of…

— Frederick Lenz

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose…

— Hermann Hesse

The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling…

— Hayao Miyazaki