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As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.
Oct 1, 2025
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.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.
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.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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.
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
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