208 Quotes About Plants

What we contemplate here is more than ecological restoration; it is the restoration of relationship between plants and people. Scientists have made a dent in understanding how to put ecosystems back together, but our experiments focus on soil pH and hydrology—matter, to the exclusion of spirit. We might look to the Thanksgiving Address for guidance on weaving the two. We are dreaming of a time when the land might give thanks for the people.

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest—to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world.

Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.

Plants grow weak without wind.

Plants adapt to lean on each other.

Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to 'live

Don’t remorse over dead flowers. Have the patience to plant seeds again.