50 Inspirational Quotes About Planting to Nurture Hope and Growth

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

- Greek Proverb

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"A seed knows how to wait… a seed is alive while it waits."

- Hope Jahren

"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

"The seeds of resilience are planted in the way we process the negative events in our lives."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain."

- Andrea Gibson

"Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on."

- Gloria Gaither

"Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love."

- Rumi

"Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest can either be flowers or weeds."

- William Wordsworth

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light."

- Sandra Kring

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."

- Cynthia Occelli

"Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition."

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

"We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient."

- Michelle Obama

"The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together."

- Jim Robbins

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

- Warren Buffet

"He who plants a tree. Plants a hope."

- Lucy Larcom

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn."

- Lord Orrery

"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

"He that plants trees, loves others besides himself."

- Thomas Fuller

"The planting of a tree shows faith in the future."

- Lucy from the March 3, 1963, Peanuts comic strip

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

- Lao Tzu

"A plant is the most patient and forgiving teacher."

- Srikumar Rao

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature."

- Steve Maraboldi

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

- Leo Buscaglia

"You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree."

- Michael Portillo

"An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."

- Sharon Salzberg

"We can’t change people, but we can plant seeds that may one day bloom in them."

- Mary Davis

"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

- Vera Nazarian

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

- John Ciardi

"Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds."

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

"Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see."

- Hamilton, the Musical

"Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing."

- Joanne Raptis

"We can't stop the seasons' changing, but we can fix the Earth by replanting it. The world was created in perfect balance, but our wrong actions led to having freezing winters in some regions and burning hot summers in others. This planet that God created was made perfectly; it only needs help to regain its original beautiful state."

- Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

"When you plant a tree, you bring nature a step closer to your home."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Plant to breathe Plant to cool down the earth Plant to heal yourself, physically and mentally Plant to regain balance Plant to live"

- Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"Advice from a Tree. Stand tall and proud. Sink your roots into the earth. Be content with your natural beauty. Go out on a limb. Drink plenty of water. Remember your roots. Enjoy the view!"

- Ilan Shamir

"It is not hard to start a small garden, all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant."

- Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

- Gertrude Jekyll

"If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the ones who have conspired with nature to save humanity."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

"Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul."

- Linda Solegato

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Just as plants need water to grow, skills need practice to thrive."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"You are like a tree firmly planted and tended by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; your leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything you do shall prosper and come to maturity."

- Psalm 1:3

"Plant a tree for me. So the whole world can see. Watch it grow and smile. It will take a while. Let it grow up big and tall. But even if it's small. It's a reminder of me. And for you to be happy."

- Jennifer Betts

"Love never fades. It never goes away. Though my body is not here. My love for you is strong. Like this tree. It grows bigger and stronger. Each memory keeping me alive, In the area of your heart. Love never fades. It will never go away. Silently, I walk beside you. Watching our tree grow. Every day, every moment, I am there. Like this tree, I will be with you."

- Jennifer Betts

"Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Gardening is a work of a lifetime: you never finish."

- Oscar de la Renta

"Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil."

- Harley King

"One good thing about the rain is that it is not only destructive, in that it can bring dead plants back to life."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Humans have been growing food for themselves since the dawn of time. Indeed, many plants have developed a dependance on us, just as some plants require digestion by birds to activate their seeds. We do our part by planting seeds in healthy soil, watering them, weeding them, and leaving them in peace. They return the favor by growing fruits and seeds and flowers that we like to eat."

- Abbi Waxman

"Paul’s sewing of tents was not equal to his writing of an Epistle to the Romans, but both were accepted of God and both were true acts of worship. Certainly it is more important to lead a soul to Christ than to plant a garden, but the planting of the garden can be as holy an act as the winning of a soul."

- A.W. Tozer

"Planting trees and using them to communicate with the natural world is holy work."

- Jessica Marie Baumgartner

"There are no soft grounds in life. Just places to water and plough."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Storms make trees take deeper roots"

- Dolly Parton

"We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward."

- Everett Mamor

"In return, Joe taught Jay more about the garden. Slowly the boy learned to tell lavender from rosemary from hyssop from sage. He learned to taste soil- a pinch between the finger and thumb slipped under the tongue, like a man testing fine tobacco- to determine its acidity. He learned how to calm a headache with crushed lavender, or a stomachache with peppermint. He learned to prepare skullcap tea and chamomile to aid sleep. He learned to plant marigolds in the potato patch to discourage parasites and to pick nettles from the top to make ale and to fork the sign against the evil eye if ever a magpie flew past."

- Joanne Harris

"The cornstalks act as supports for the climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil for the corn and squash, and the squash provides mulch and root protection for the corn and beans. And then, just to make it all perfect, when you eat the corn and beans together, they form a complete protein."

- Abbi Waxman

"Human beings go on living as if they own the whole world. There are two misconceptions that humans hold, which constitute the major portion of all the wrongs that they do. First is that the Earth belongs to humans and the second is that humans belong to Earth."

- Shivanshu K. Srivastava

"We dont even know their names anymore. The average person knows the name of less than a dozen plants, and this includes such categories as 'Christmas Tree'. Losing their names is a step in losing respect."

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

"May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."

- Native American Proverb

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."

- Chinese proverb

"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."

- Janet Kilburn Phillips

"How about you tell me which plants are which, and we'll... organize them. So that they all have the chance to thrive. We can designate areas for different kinds of plants and transplant the rest outside the fence. Like at the library." She walked toward the east side of the garden. "Here's the Nonfiction section. Vegetables only here." "New Studies and Treaties," Caz said, designating an area at the front of the Nonfiction section. "Your seeds can go here. And in the back, Histories--- that's the old growth." "In the front of the cottage, Fiction. That'll be all the flowers." "What about the berries?" "Journals of Scientific Papers," she decided, because of the way the brambles both supported and strangled one another. "Along the far fence.”"

- Sarah Beth Durst

"I love how the garden brightens after getting drenched by rain."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world."

- John Muir

"A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house."

- Beth Ditto

"He always planted at a new moon and picked when the moon was full. He had a lunar chart in his greenhouse, each day marked in a dozen different inks; brown for potatoes, yellow for parsnips, orange for carrots. Watering too was done to an astrological schedule, as was the pruning and positioning of trees. And the garden thrived on this eccentric treatment, growing strong, luxuriant rows of cabbages and turnips, carrots which were sweet and succulent and mysteriously free of slugs, trees whose branches fairly touched the ground under the weight of apples, pears, plums, cherries. Brightly colored Oriental-looking signs taped to tree branches supposedly kept the birds from eating the fruit. Astrological symbols- painstakingly constructed from pieces of broken pottery and colored glass set into the gravel path- lined the garden beds."

- Joanne Harris

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden."

- Ruth Stout

"After all, no designed planting ever lasts. Its main purpose is not to endure but to enchant."

- Thomas Rainer, Claudia West

"There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

- Khalil Gibran

"May your love grow like a beautiful tree, sending roots deep and branches high, with new beauty every season of your life together."

- Wedding Blessing

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"From little seeds grow mighty trees"

- Unknown

"Love makes little things grow."

- Unknown