Top 261 Planting Quotes & Sayings

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on.

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a national obsession with tree planting, which is in danger of becoming as tokenistic as bamboo toothbrushes and cotton tote bags.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

I used to get nits all the time as a kid. I was six when I first encountered the egg planting hair vermin.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.

If you go to Italy and you drive from the airport to the town, there isn't 30 square feet that isn't planted by someone. Even next to the train tracks, they see the joy of the interaction with the planet as integral to the experience. The idea that you can get free arugula just by planting seeds... because it will regrow itself the next year. We've come a long way from foraging to now planting. The next step of that will be continuing that expansion of planting and really owning the crops.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

In the countryside, planting flowers, vegetables and trees is not difficult.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Only by planting trees, we will be able to overcome global warming.

I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

I did it all, man. My father worked with planting, leasing the land and planting corn and beans, things like that. My brother and I helped to harvest. At the time of planting, we would go along too. I think that made me become the woman I am today, strong and focused.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.