I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

If you build up the soil with organic material the plants will do just fine.

Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If a tree dies plant another in its place.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Use plants to bring life.

The secret of improved plant breeding apart from scientific knowledge is love.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with somehow.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience for novelty or for nostalgia but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.