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Quotes About Planting

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?
~ George Orwell
Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
In keeping with the way Paul prayed for every church he planted, we ask you to inundate, saturate, and liberate our churches by the gospel of your incomparable grace—new church plants and aging communities alike. There's
~ Scotty Smith
It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But to get back to the moon, the moon! Ah, the moon! Farmers plant by it, fishermen fish by it, werewolves were by it, bartenders and orderlies in bughouses sigh and shiver at the thoughts of it …
~ Avram Davidson
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
~ Baha'u'llah
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.
~ Rubem Alves
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a
~ Jojo Moyes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
~ Jojo Moyes
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
~ English proverb
A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.
~ Ben Sherwood
Actually, the law can be approached as if it were a kind of garden," said Seward. "You must recall where and when you plant each seed …
~ Gore Vidal
Mr. April enjoys roasting vegetables over a fire and the company of kind, modest young women. For every tree Mr. May takes down with a single ax stroke, he plants three seedlings with his own callused hands. When Mr. September isn't hard at work lumberjacking, he loves to take his pet dogs on long walks.
~ Shannon Hale
I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.
~ John Boorman
Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
~ Mary Doria Russell
As I planted the beans, Turtle followed me down the row digging each one up after I planted it and putting it back in the jar. "Good girl," I said. I could see a whole new era arriving in Turtle's and my life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest
~ Stephen R. Covey
Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul.
~ Sylvia Browne
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
~ Bill Meyer
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.
~ Wangari Maathai
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
He who plants kindness gathers love.
~ Saint Basil
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
~ D. Elton Trueblood