Alcaeus Quotes

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickings, or minds so well improved as my garden.

I'm really good at growing roses.

I planted an orchard when I was 13. The impulse came from wanting to grow my own apples. That and the nursery catalog showed an apple tree with a beautiful girl standing under the fruit. Whether the flavor or the picture that did it, I've been hooked since.

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

Eggplants are finicky, complicated, and often misunderstood. If you know how to treat one well, then it shows that you have know-how and dedication.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.