Existential Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Robert Sylwester

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

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 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

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

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be…

— Joshua Reynolds

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

— Richard Evans Schultes

Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when…

— Sharon Gannon

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots…

— Eric Hoffer

“Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in…

— A. A Buhlmann

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

— Allan Armitage

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

— Elizabeth Smart