Plant Cultivation Quotes

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

A flower is an educated weed.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.