Top 30 Plant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

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2. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Warren Buffett

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4. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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5. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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6. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

— Hal Borland

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7. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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8. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

— Molière

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9. “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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10. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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11. “Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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12. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

— Lao Tzu

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13. “Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

— Lao Tzu

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14. “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

— Wangari Maathai

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15. “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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16. “There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.”

— Maria Montessori

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17. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

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18. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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19. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

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20. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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21. “There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”

— Bob Ross

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22. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

— William Shakespeare

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23. “The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

— Dr. Seuss

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24. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

— Ovid

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25. “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

— E.E. Cummings

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26. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”

— Pablo Neruda

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27. “And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

— Rumi

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28. “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

— William Wordsworth

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29. “The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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30. “I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.”

— Nhat Hanh

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31. “Trees don’t grow evenly, they don’t grow straight, just however it makes them happy.”

— Bob Ross

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32. “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

33. “In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

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34. “Let us cultivate our garden.”

— Voltaire

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