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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Horse, Mean, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Grows

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Simple, Garden, Thinking

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.18, Rodale

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• Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

  B. J. Fogg

  Spots, Grows, Seeds

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• There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

  Christian Louboutin

  Use, Ugly, May

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Dies, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Success, Believe

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• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

  Desmond Tutu

  Motivational, Success, Water

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• In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Garden, People, Microbes

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• Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

  Thomas Cooper

  Growth, Slow Growth

  Thomas Cooper (1812). “The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq: Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania”, p.4

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• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

  Russell Page

  Dream, Giving, Tree

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• Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Green Plants, Light, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2012

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• Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Fall, Blow

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

  Mantak Chia

  Meditation, Tree, Energy

  Mantak Chia (2006). “Chi Nei Tsang: Chi Massage for the Vital Organs”, p.84, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I have trust that we humans can resolve the problems that we have created. There is a Sanskrit saying that I subscribe to and I like very much, that "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in the animals, and thinks in Man."

  Edgar Mitchell

  Sleep, Animal, Men

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  God, Nature, Believe

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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