208 Quotes About Plants

Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.

Please stop buying my friends if you are just going to slowly kill them.

The exchange between plants and people has shaped the evolutionary history of both. Farms, orchards, and vineyards are stocked with species we have domesticated. Our appetite for their fruits leads us to till, prune, irrigate, fertilize, and weed on their behalf. Perhaps they have domesticated us. Wild plants have changed to stand in well-behaved rows and wild humans have changed to settle alongside the fields and care for the plants—a kind of mutual taming.

Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later....We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things.

Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture.

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.

Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let plants identify me.

They are like to plants that have grown around each other- they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.