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Last Updated on April 2, 2021 by Sophie

Whether you’re planning on creating a card for the plant lover in your life or you’re looking to decorate your home with a new plant saying, we have you covered. Here’s your guide to the best of plant quotes, plant puns, and quotes about gardening that you can use and enjoy…

Plant Quotes & Green Sayings About Plants

Best Plant Quotes & Sayings About Plants

“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some”. – Herbert Rappaport


“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water”. – Desmond Tutu


“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow”. – Audrey Hepburn


“Gardening is a work of a lifetime: you never finish”. – Oscar de la Renta


“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves”. – Mahatma Gandhi


“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now”. – Chinese proverb


“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”. – Claude Monet


 “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden”. – Minnie Aumonier


“If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden”. – Robert Brault


“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant”. – Robert Louis Stevenson


“If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete”. – Marcus Tullius Cicero


“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” – Gertrude Jekyll


“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.” – Jonathan Haidt

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Sophie Nadeau is a travel, pizza, and history lover who is currently based in Paris, France. A keen indoor gardener, she spends her time at home reading books, looking at too many dog photos, and growing an indoor jungle in her tiny flat!