Care Quote by Martha Stewart

Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

— H. Peter Loewer

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

— Luther Burbank

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

— Celia Thaxter

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

— Elsa Bakalar

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

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in…

— William George Jordan

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

— Peter Smithers

“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”

— Charles Dowding

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

— Ralph Fiennes

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

— W. Edwards Deming

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of…

— Carol Deppe