Forgetting Quote by Michael Shindler

“The Latin names of plants blur like belief.”

— Carol Ann Duffy

“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

“Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.”

— Robert Aitken

“Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere.”

— Robert Sylwester

“Listen to the language of the trees they speak in silence learn that alphabet.”

— Christina Strigas

“Even ruins turn into gardens. Even our silence learns the song.”

— Andreea Daiana

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or…

— John Hay

“There is a German legend that just as God had finished naming all the plants, one was left unnamed. A tiny voice spoke out,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect…

— Katharine Haake

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even…

— Ralph Fletcher

“songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”

— JRR Tolkein

“For Frank, music was like a garden – it sowed seeds in far-flung places. People would miss out on so many wonderful things if…

— Rachel Joyce