An environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continually use and reuse the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering.
—E. F. Schumacher
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
—Mitch Hedberg
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
—Tennessee Williams
Use plants to bring life.
—Douglas Wilson
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
—William Cowper
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
—Arthur Young
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
—B. C. Forbes
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
—Edward Abbey