Plants Quotes

“Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“Hanging around the small minded eventually makes us small minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it's in.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything

“Some flowers do not belong where they were originally planted.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“Cohabit with plants.”
― Steven Magee

“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

“We walked among the different plants and by using The Book, we did our best to identify them and understand how to use them. Some were easy- spearmint, "for refreshment, strength, and healing," and rosemary, "for remembrance, and the prevention of nightmares." We also found a swathe of sage, which could be used "to cultivate wisdom and intelligence." When I came across a bunch of plants with dark green leaves and tiny white flowers, it took us quite a while to identify it by its drawing in The Book: gotu kola, an herb that could "restore the senses and clear confusion."
"Oh, look at this one," I said. "Saffron, for success. I should probably bake with that."
"If only it grew here," said Vik.
Finally, on the bank of a small stream, we found gigantic thyme stems, almost two feet tall and topped with plump clusters of purple flowers. "What's thyme good for?" I asked Vik as I plucked a dozen stems and inhaled their herbaceous scent.
"Thyme attracts affection, loyalty, and the goodwill of others," read Vik, "and can foster strength and courage when needed.”
― Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

“Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment.”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“Also, Moss liked to rescue whatever animal or plant needed it. She believed they had earned it.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“after you've pulled off the tablecloth with
the full plates of food
and broken the windows
and rung the bells of
idiots
and have
spoken true and terrible
words
and have
chased the mob through the
doorway-
then comes the great and
peaceful moment: sitting alone
and
pouring that quiet drink.

the world is better without
them.

only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.

I drink to them and with
them.

they wait as I fill their
glasses.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Dandelions are the genies of the plant world.”
― Devon Voyles

“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, Blackberry Wine

“Live in the indoor garden.”
― Steven Magee

“Bring the outdoors indoors.”
― Steven Magee

“Perényi had found in the garden everything from sexual politics and class struggle to culinary fashion and, particularly relevant to me, ecological insight. The garden in other words, was better approached as an arena than a refuge. --Intro by Michael Pollan”
― Frank Kingdon Ward, In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward

“There is a reason why I have a lot of plants growing inside of my home.”
― Steven Magee

“Landscaping is a never-ending attempt to make some parts of nature look civilized.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Tropical palms bring strong solar energy to your home that break up stale energy, and keep your home safe from nasty spiritual entities. The African violet is associated with love and magic, and its vibrant purple flowers pull lunar energy into your home. Aloe, a succulent that grows in long spears, is moon planet associated with the water element because the gel inside the leaves in cooling and healing. The clusters of star shaped flowers that grow on the long tendrils of the hoya, also called a wax plant, produce truly intoxicating nectar whose aroma fills the whole house and bestows blessings on anyone who smells it.”
― Paige Vanderbeck, Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond

“The walls behind the counter had deep floor-to-ceiling shelves for vases and jam jars and scented candles, and there was an old wrought-iron revolving stand for cards. But most of the space in the long, narrow shop was taken up with flowers and plants.
Today there were fifty-two kinds of cut blooms, from the tiny cobalt-blue violets that were smaller than Lara's little fingernail to a purple-and-green-frilled brassica that was bigger than her head.
The flowers were set out in gleaming metal buckets and containers of every shape and size. They were lined up on the floor three deep and stacked on the tall three-tier stand in the middle of the shop.
The plants, huge leafy ferns and tiny fleshy succulents, lemon trees and jasmine bushes and freckled orchids, were displayed on floating shelves that were built at various heights all the way up to the ceiling.
Lara had spent weeks getting the lighting right. There were a few soft spotlights above the flower displays, and an antique crystal chandelier hung low above the counter. There were strings of fairy lights and dozens of jewel-colored tea lights and tall, slender lanterns dotted between the buckets. When they were lit, they cast star and crescent moon shapes along the walls and the shop resembled the courtyard of a Moroccan riad- a tiny walled garden right in the middle of the city.”
― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement

“Ordering online was all about ticking boxes. Species. Color. Size. Number. Grade of quality. Degree of openness. But there was something miraculous about seeing the flowers she'd imagined brought to life. Roses from Columbia. Chrysanthemums from Ecuador. Orchids from Thailand. Anemones and agapanthus from Spain. Stargazers and parrot tulips from the vast Dutch flower fields.”
― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement

“Do you want to stop an avenger level threat? Then you should raise an army (trees) to fight climate change.”
― Mohith Agadi

“Ingesting them(Mistletoe and Azalea beautiful plants) can cause sickness and in some cases even death-KILLER PLANTS, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK”
― V J SMITH

“I had so much to learn. We knew that Pax was a billion years older than Earth. On Earth, plants had separated from animals less than a billion years ago. Probably Pax plants had more time to evolve.

The greenery around me held secrets I would never learn.”
― Sue Burke, Semiosis

“The plants here aren't like anything on Earth," I tried to explain one night. "They have cells I can't explain. On Earth, all seeds have one or two embryonic leaves, but here they have three or five or eight."

"And RNA," Grun said, "not DNA. Nothing has DNA except us.”
― Sue Burke, Semiosis

“My philosophy with health techniques is to try them out on plants first and if the plants thrive, I then try them out.”
― Steven Magee

“There’s also some indication that replacing carbohydrate with plant rather than animal foods has special health benefits. Among approximately eighty thousand women in the Nurses’ Health Study consuming lower-carbohydrate diets, high consumption of vegetable protein and fat was associated with a 30 percent lower risk for heart disease over twenty years, whereas high consumption of animal protein and fat appear to provide no such protection.

One explanation for this finding is that the relative amounts of amino acids in animal protein stimulate more insulin and less glucagon release than those in plant protein – a hormone combination that has detrimental effects on serum cholesterol and fat-cell metabolism. Other possible downsides of a modern, animal-based diet include a less healthful profile of dietary fats, excessive iron absorption (especially for men), and chronic exposure to hormones, preservatives, and environmental pollutants.”
― David Ludwig, Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently

“I was getting ready for school when I heard mom says, “What happened to the plants?”
“What happened to them?!” asked Dad.
“Someone missed with all the herbs!” replied Mom.
So, I head to our new planted pots, and I saw what I would never want to see. Out plants were smashed, and the soil has been dug.
It was a total mess.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi, My Garden Visitor

“Hello everyone, I am Majid. I am a seven years old boy with many hobbies.
I like to draw.
I like to read books.
I like to play video games.
However, most of all, I like to take care of my home garden with my mother.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi, My Garden Visitor

“I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship.”
― Sue Burke, Semiosis

“That evening we gathered in the dining room, a forty-foot-high-ceiling atrium with indoor plants and outdoor blooms separated by tall windows—the impression of great openness, even while sheltered.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Plants would rather be defecated on than be loved.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana