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Planters Quotes: 115 Sayings For Enthusiastic Green Thumbs

Planters Quotes: 115 Sayings For Enthusiastic Green Thumbs

Planters quotes for those with green thumbs will be a real treat. If you think of yourself as a green thumb or a person who loves nature, then you’ll definitely enjoy this article.

This article is for all those people who enjoy nature. It is for the people who make this planet slightly better with seedlings planted every now and then.

If you found yourself in any of those sentences so far you’ll love it. But if you didn’t, I’m sure you’ll still find something interesting for yourself below.

Below you’ll find some of the most interesting and easy-to-remember quotes for Instagram captions, your bullet journal, FB captions, and even flower cards. If you’re ready, let’s read them.

Our Favorite Planters Quotes

1. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir

2. “Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.” – Michael Pollan

3. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” – Wangari Maathai

4. ”When you’re planting seeds, you’re planting a new life on Earth.” – Unknown

5. “Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you when it feeds you in the body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer

6. “Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.” – Whitney Brown

7. “Tiny seed knew how important they would be on this planet.“ – Uknown

8. “The symbolism – and the substantive significance – of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women, and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.” – Al Gore

9. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

10. “Start planting trees when you’re young. Get this habit when you’re an adult.“ – Unknown

Inspiring Planters Quotes

11. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees from a tiny seed, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

12. “That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.” – Egyptian tomb inscription

13. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

14. “On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” – W.S. Merwin

15. “Let soldiers on maneuver plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.” – John Wright

16. “To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” – Russell Page

17. “The planting of a tree is a modest form of immortality and one of the few truly long-term expressions of hope to mortal human beings.” – Voltaire

18. “If you wish to be happy for a year, plant a garden. If you wish to be happy for a lifetime, plant a tree.” – Jim Morris

19. “And for doing such a beautiful thing for so many people. The world is lucky to have you.“ — Jennifer Williamson

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20. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” – Kahlil Gebran

21. “Forests are the lungs of our land.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

22. “All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” – Santosh Kalwar

23. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.” – Hal Borland

24. “A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” – Welsh Proverb

25. “You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.” – Janet Erskine Stua

26. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare

27. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” – Carolus Linnaeus

28. “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” – Thomas Fuller

29. “Some people are like trees – they take forever to grow up.” – Leslie Hillman

30. “Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.” – Amit Ray

31. “Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.” – Matz

32. “Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.” – Karen Joy Fowler

33. “If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before.” – Amit Ray

34. “Trees give peace to the souls of men.” – Nora Waln

Motivational Planters Quotes

35. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.” – Carl Sagan

37. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings. An orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying, the average person would rather be someone they are not.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

38. “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” – Wendell Berry

39. “Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.” – Martin O’Malley

40. “If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.” – Stephen Girard

41. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg

42. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”– Honore de Balzac

43. “There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden.” – Ernest Wilson

44. “You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows. But you can’t just wait around. You have to water it and take care of it.” – Bootsy Collins

45. “Earth stays in joy, When we plant a tree. Beneath the ground, oh, boy! Roots feel free.” – Munia Khan

Joyful Planters Quotes

46. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– Frances Hodgson Burnett

47. “Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun, and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.” – Anton Chekhov

49. “I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kind-hearted.” – Andrea Koehle Jones

50. “Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.” – Sir David Attenborough

51. “At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.” – Chico Mendes

52. “He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.” – Henry Van Dyke

53. “I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.” – Penelope Keith

54. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”– Walter Hagen

55. “Advice from a tree, stand tall and proud, sink your roots into the earth. Be content with your natural beauty, go out on a limb, drink plenty of water, remember your roots and enjoy the view.” – Ilan Shmia

Heart Warming Planting Trees Quotes

56. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank

57. “We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes, and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

58. “I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth. “ – Louise Dickinson Rich

59. “You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not only survive but bloom into a beautiful plant. That was me—my whole life.” – Jonathan Van Ness

60. “If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.” – W.B. Yeats

61. “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” – Victor Hugo

62. “Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.” – Lord Orrery

63. “The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings.” – Buddhist Sutra

Moving Planters Quotes

64. “I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air – the air you can kiss – and palms.” – Jack Kerouac

65. “People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.” – Bryce Nelson

66. “Because they are primeval, because they outlive us because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in the earth, they seem to touch the sky.” – Kim Taplin, Tongues in Trees

67. “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sanober Khan

68. “I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” ― Antoinette Foy

69. “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change color, you cannot help treasuring them.” ― Munia Khan

70. “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― Alexander Den Heijer

Planters Quotes By Famous People

71. “We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

72. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen

73. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey

74. “A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight, where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.” – Cameron Dokey

75. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett

76. “The trees that are slow to grow to bear the best fruit.” – Moliere

77. “Beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm trees rise.” – William C. Bryant

78. “May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.” – John Henry Jowett

79. “Grow as a palm tree on God’s Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.” – Samuel Rutherford

Beautiful Planters Quotes

80. “A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don’t get it.” – Jose Andres

81. “Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

82. The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” — Honore de Balzac

83. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller

84. “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” — Gemma Malley, The Declaration

85. “It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree, it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” – Philip Sidney

86. “Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they are vegetative, he will be like a plant.” – Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

87. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” — Miranda Kerr

88. “May you never be too busy to stop and breathe under a palm tree.” – Unknown

Insightful Planters Quotes

89. “A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don’t get it. Is being palmed parents so beautiful?” – Jose Andres

90. “A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky.” – Victoria Kahler

91. “I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as an escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.” – Paul Theroux

92. “It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” – Henry David Thoreau

93. “I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gently swaying as they reach to the sky, masses, and masses of roses.” – Kirk Douglas

94. “What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough.

95. “Some beach, somewhere. There’s a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin’ and a warm breeze blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.” – Blake Shelton

96. “In my garden, there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.” – Unknown

Planters Quote By Leaders And Authors

97. “The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.” – Homaro Cantu

98. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – F. Roosevelt

99. “We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.” – Everett Mamor

100. “No two leaves are alike in a forest of a hundred thousand trees. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho

101. “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower shares a bit of knowledge. It becomes another’s smile at someone and receives a smile in return. These are to me continual spiritual exercises.” – Leo Buscaglia

102. “Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.” – Munia Khan

103. “One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting, caring, and loving are also expecting our earth from us. Do it. Be a friend to this planet. Begin planting. It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind.” – Karthikeyan V.

104. “When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

105. “Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher

Make-You-Feel-Good Quotes

106. “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.” – D. Elton Trueblood

107. “Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” – Albert Schweitzer

108. “I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.” – Cherie Lunghi

109. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” – May Sarton

110. “No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.” – Hugh Johnson

111. “Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.” – Colin Tudge

112. “Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.” – Unknown

113. “This solitary Tree was planted by a gardener! A living thing produced too slowly ever to decay; of form and aspect too magnificent to be destroyed.” – William Wordsworth

114. “It’s like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.” – Stephen Kendrick  

115. “I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest seedlings from fallen trees in the woods.” – John K.

Wrapping Up

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