Attitude Quote by Rachel Carson

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates…

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Celia Thaxter

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be…

— Eleanor Perenyi

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

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

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can…

— Audrey Hepburn

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

— Elizabeth Smart

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to…

— Steven Pinker