In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
He who plants a garden plants happiness.