The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
The creation of a garden is not unlike the creation of a work of art.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
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.
Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience.
What we learn from the land is how little we know.
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.