Motivational Plant Quotes :
1. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
– Martin Luther
2. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.”
– Wangari Maathai
3. “If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”
– Confucius
4. “No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.”
– Joe Barton
5. “Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
– Gustave Flaubert
6. “The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.”
– Eliud Kipchoge
7. “Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.”
– Guru Nanak
8. “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”
– John Lennon
9. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
– Earl Nightingale
10. “I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.”
– Jacqueline Bisset
11. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
– George Eliot
12. “That’s the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.”
– Wangari Maathai
13. “It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.”
– Ryuichi Sakamoto
14. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington
15. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
16. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
– Doug Larson
17. “A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.”
– E. B. White
18. “While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life.”
– George Monbiot
19. “Most of my friends – when I was five, six, seven years old – their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren’t around as much. My dad finished at three o’clock, so he was just around more.”
– J. K. Simmons
20. “A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.”
– Monty Don
21. “What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
– Meister Eckhart
22. “Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.”
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
23. “I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.”
– Dan Quayle
24. “When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow
25. “Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.”
– John Burroughs
26. “As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.”
– George Monbiot
27. “His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
– Anne Bronte
28. “You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
– Huey Newton
29. “The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.”
– Roddy Llewellyn
30. “My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don’t, you don’t take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.”
– Hank Haney
31. “As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
32. “Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
– Lucy Larcom
33. “I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.”
– Louie Schwartzberg
34. “I’m a gardener, and I love to plant.”
– Jill Biden
35. “Bamboo is not a weed, it’s a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.”
– Steve Lacy
36. “We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.”
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
37. “A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.”
– Robert Krulwich
38. “I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.”
– Debbie Ford
39. “We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.”
– Moshe Dayan
40. “Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.”
– Bob Marley
41. “Getting rid of all the food I was eating and going to this plant based diet it did take those few days to actually feel better, but when it got to the beginning of the third week I felt so good.”
– Hector Bellerin
42. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
– Carolus Linnaeus
43. “If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I’ll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.”
– Adele
44. “If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
45. “Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”
– Jean Arp
46. “Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection charm.”
– Monty Don
47. “That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.”
– Guru Nanak
48. “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”
– Orson Scott Card
49. “Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
50. “Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
– Rumi
51. “By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.”
– Andrea Leadsom
52. “We don’t need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth’s surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.”
– E. O. Wilson
53. “Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.”
– Robert Collier
54. “To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
55. “A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.”
– Beth Ditto
56. “You can plant a dream.”
– Anne Campbell
57. “He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
58. “Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.”
– Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
59. “We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.”
– Michael Greger
60. “The begonia is an amazing plant it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.”
– Gladys Taber
61. “Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”
– Samuel Daniel
62. “I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.”
– James Marsters
63. “I love the idea of the winter rose that’s sort of sleeping underneath the soil. Underneath all the snow is this plant that was growing and developing and could present itself as this beautiful flower in this time where everything else around it is very barren.”
– Corinne Bailey Rae
64. “I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
– Emily Carr
65. “I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.”
– Debbie Ford
66. “If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you’ll get good things back. That’s part of our responsibility as entertainers.”
– Ben Vereen
67. “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington
68. “Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.”
– Chris Kilham
69. “Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.”
– John Shimkus
70. “The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.”
– John Tyler Bonner
71. “Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can’t punish business into doing the things you want.”
– Mitt Romney
72. “For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere – a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.”
– Zaha Hadid
73. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
– Henry David Thoreau
74. “The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.”
– Lynn Good
75. “Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.”
– Ziggy Marley
76. “My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.”
– Clive Anderson
77. “The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
– Sophocles
78. “A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.”
– Alexander Smith
79. “We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.”
– Adolfo Perez Esquivel
80. “I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.”
– Lakshmi Mittal
81. “I don’t think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.”
– Percy Julian
82. “Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”
– Alex Steffen
83. “Bloom’ is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.”
– Ken Goldberg
84. “I’m always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.”
– Takashi Murakami
85. “A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.”
– Hamdi Ulu kaya
86. “I don’t believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.”
– Golshifteh Farahani
87. “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
88. “Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
89. “Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation’s leaders and citizens.”
– Stewart Udall
90. “Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.”
– William Pitt
91. “A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
– C. Northcote Parkinson
92. “Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.”
– B. R. Ambedkar
93. “An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
– Jean Cocteau
94. “The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.”
– Michael Oxley
95. “I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.”
– Richard J. Codey
96. “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
– George Washington
97. “For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I’m going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I’m all for it.”
– Ed Begley, Jr.
98. “I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it’s still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.”
– Glennon Doyle Melton
99. “The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family – specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.”
– Steven Gundry
100. “I can’t pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We’ve got masses.”
– Mary Berry
101. “No apple is reliably self-fertile, so each tree needs a pollinator. A neighbour may well have an apple that will do that for you, but it is better to always plant at least two trees to be certain of pollination.”
– Monty Don
102. “You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.”
– Bootsy Collins
103. “You can plant a church and grow a church. That’s not that hard to do, but it’s harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.”
– Erwin McManus
104. “We’ve gotten so far away from our food source. It’s been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It’s that simple.”
– Ron Finley
105. “One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”
– Tom Hodgkinson
106. “I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”
– Penelope Keith
107. “I always think of a show like a plant – a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn’t pull it out and chop the roots up.”
– Len Goodman
108. “I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.”
– Dorothy Malone
109. “Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.”
– Charles Duhigg
110. “I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
– Robert Browning
111. “A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.”
– Brooke Burke
112. “People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily… whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.”
– John Mackey
113. “Don’t plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.”
– Molly Yeh
114. “The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.”
– Robert Fortune
115. “The sun is the most important thing in everybody’s life, whether you’re a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.”
– Danny Boyle
116. “The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
– Luther Burbank
117. “I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.”
– Janine Turner
118. “Everybody should plant a tree on any happy occasion or birthday and celebrate.”
– Sayaji Shinde
119. “Break the rules – put a plant or a floral arrangement in a room that you wouldn’t expect.”
– Jeremiah Brent
120. “Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.”
– Kailash Satyarthi
121. “It’s funny; as I get older I’m reverting to my roots – I want to plant stuff.”
– Melissa McCarthy
122. “A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.”
– Andrew Weil
123. “Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it’s hydrated, not just squeaky clean.”
– Emily Weiss
124. “Anything I plant, to actually watch it grow gives me great pleasure.”
– Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
125. “We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.”
– Sheldon Whitehouse
126. “Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.”
– Homaro Cantu
127. “By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.”
– Saskya Pandita
128. “If every seed turned into a plant, we’d be living in a very different world.”
– Hope Jahren
129. “We’re not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.”
– Douglas Trumbull
130. “You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.”
– John Abizaid
131. “When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.”
– Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
132. “If you grow the food you eat, it tastes better. Seasonal vegetables are grown at the right time, and you can make sure everything matures on the plant or on the tree. It’s as fresh as you can get.”
– Marc Gasol
133. “Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”
– Robert MacNeil
134. “I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.”
– Michael Connelly
135. “You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.”
– Becky Hammon
136. “Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.”
– Alison Krauss
137. “I found out that there was this project called the ‘Great Green Wall’ where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.”
– Magnus Larsson
138. “I’m the kind of guy who can’t keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.”
– Jerry O’Connell
139. “As actors, we’re all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, ‘Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.”
– Daniel Day-Lewis
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– Brad Leone
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