Plant Quotes

He doesn’t know what i need that once, his planted seed has grown in me for him, my heart blooms for eternity.

From the Leaves, and Downs, and Beards of Plants, we come at last to the Seeds; and here indeed seems to be the Cabinet of Nature, wherein are laid up its Jewels.”

Plant the seeds of love and in time fruits will blossom.

It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

The dreams and desires you have are seeds the universe plants in hopes you’ll latch on and expand.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.