A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone play a slide trombone plant a small tree good God now you're free.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
I see humanity now as one vast plant needing for its highest fulfillment only love the natural blessings of the great outdoors and intelligent crossing and selection.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings.
Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.