Gardening Quote by Michael Pollan

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass…

— Willa Cather

“And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It…

— John Wyndham

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

— Michael Pollan

“You may not have the greenest yard, but you can take the shit you're given and fertilize your grass into something beautiful!”

— L.M. Fields

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it…

— William Vogt

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the…

— Anonymous

“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had…

— Victor Villaseñor

“The environment left fresh memories on my mind and I too, on top of it, left some small quantities of urine at irregular intervals…

— Beston V Muzenda

“Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.”

— Amit Ray

“Yes, I had dreamed of becoming a botanist, my entire life, really. I'd thought a great deal about the various species of maple and…

— Sarah Jio