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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.
Sep 30, 2025
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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.
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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.
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
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