Gardening and caring for plants are some of the most popular hobbies out there. During the pandemic, these activities have given people purpose and helped them feel more useful and grounded amidst the events unfolding around them. Considering all of that, it is no surprise that numerous quotes about plants have surfaced all over the internet.
Luckily, here’s a list with the best examples for you to check out. Whether you need a quirky Instagram caption or some motivational words for when gardening becomes tough, this list will have you covered. Read on!
Inspirational Quotes About Plants
#1. “There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.” — Mirabel Osler
#2. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
#3. “In some Native languages, the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer
#4. “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
#5. “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese proverb
#6. “When the world wearies, and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” — Minnie Aumonier
#7.“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
#8. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” — Robert Brault
#9. “We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.” ― Desmond Tutu
#10. “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
#11. “A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one.” ― Priyansh Shah
#12. “The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.” — Masanobu Fukuoka
#13. “Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.” ― May Sarton
Quotes About Gardening
#14. “To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.” — Marina Schinz
#15. “It is not hard to start a small garden; all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant.” ― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
#16. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” — Gertrude Jekyll
#17. “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.” — David Hobson
#18. “There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden.” — Ernest Wilson
#19. “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
#20. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” — Michael Pollan
#21. “Garden as though you will live forever.” — William Kent
Quotes About Flowers
#22. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ― E.V.
#23. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” ― Max Muller
#24. “Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
#25. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” ― Carole Radziwill
#26. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.” ― Luther Burbank
#28. “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
#29. “All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.” ― Indian proverb
#30. “The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” ― Dorothea Dix
Motivational Quotes About Plants
#31. “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
#32. “Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.” — Masanobu Fukuoka
#33. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#34. “Plan a garden for the future, but expect it to evolve and need changing, despite your well-laid-out plans. Such is the temperament of Mother Nature.” — Meredith Kirton
#35. “Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it’s inevitable we’ll respect people.” — Audrey Hepburn
#36. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek proverb
#37. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees.” — George Eliot
#38. “No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love, then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work.” — Jackie French
#39. “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi
#40. “You are also far less likely to waste food when you have nurtured it from a seed into a plant.” — Darina Allen
#41. “Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” — Ralph Ransom
Wise Quotes About Plants
#42. “We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.” — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#43. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett
#44. “The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” — Michael Pollan
#45. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” — Herbert Rappaport.
#46. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” — A.A. Milne.
#47. “A passionate look, touch, or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies.” ― Karthikeyan V
#48. “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
#49. “What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. “If you think relationships are hard, try growing a houseplant. You’ll realize that the latter won’t even tell you why it’s sad, so you have to figure that out and do everything possible to make it blossom (or smile) again.” ― Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
