My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.
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 you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.
Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
Whosoever plants a tree Winks at immortality.
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.