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Quotes About Planting

A seed needs planting in order to grow. It needs patience. If the seed was cast from the hand of God, he will surely sprout it, in his time, in his way. If it came from good human intentions, consider it no waste. It was a mortal's vocalized belief that you have something to offer, and while that person may prove mistaken about the precise form, that faith can act as fertilizer to the soil.
~ Beth Moore
The one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 1 Corinthians 3:8
~ Beth Moore
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
~ Steven Pressfield
Your goodness will not be forgotten," I told him. "Not a single act of your love will be squandered. You've brought God's kingdom as you hoped—you've planted it in our hearts.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
May your coffin be made of the finest wood from a one-hundred-year-old tree that I'll go plant tomorrow. —TRADITIONAL IRISH BLESSING
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The world needs more trees.
~ Julia Quinn
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
~ Francois Lelord
I'm an entrepreneur, and I want to be remembered as the seed that was planted in good soil and multiplied a hundredfold.
~ Bob P. Buford
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.
~ Helen Humphreys
You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
~ Lynn Schusterman
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
~ Charles Caleb Colton
But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.
~ Michael Crichton
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
~ Michael Pollan
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
~ Ed Westwick
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
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.
~ George Eliot
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.
~ Jean Hersey
We all play our roles. One person plants the seed, another waters it, but it grows only when the season is right.
~ Ted Dekker
God Almighty first planted a garden.
~ Francis Bacon
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
~ Alexander Smith
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
~ Wangari Maathai
Everybody should plant a tree on any happy occasion or birthday and celebrate.
~ Sayaji Shinde