208 Quotes About Plants

Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed the soil not the plants.

Dafür dass wir, wie auch die Tiere, von den Pflanzen leben, ja ohne sie nicht einmal atmen könnten, genügt kein einfacher Dank – Verehrung ist angebracht.

Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere.

They turn up at the same time of the year, every year, like garrulous relatives you wished lived just a little further away.

we make a grave error when we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.

The writer Charlotte Smith, who suffered from chronic rheumatism and depression, passionately believed that plants could 'soothe' a 'wounded mind.

Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing.

Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.

To say nothing of weeds—many of them being plants we used to value but no longer do. They don’t like to die out, you know. (From ‘The Extraordinary Adventures of Doggins’)