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I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers. (Quote by - Soundarya)

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. (Quote by - He plants it for posterity. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. (Quote by - Francis Cabot Lowell)

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. (Quote by - Jim Costa)

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. (Quote by - William Cowper)

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. (Quote by - David Hobson)

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. (Quote by - Egon Schiele)

Give the children an opportunity to make garden Let them grow what they will It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. (Quote by - Liberty Hyde Bailey)

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. (Quote by - Georg Brandes)

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. (Quote by - Saint Basil)

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. (Quote by - Jeff Miller)

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. (Quote by - Terence McKenna)

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. (Quote by - Bette Bao Lord)

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. (Quote by - Liberty Hyde Bailey)

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. (Quote by - Barbara McClintock)

If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter All of these exist in me. (Quote by - Klaus Kinski)

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. (Quote by - Ellsworth Huntington)

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. (Quote by - A Whitney Brown)

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me. (Quote by - Gustav Krupp)

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