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

Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Roberto Burle Marx

“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”

Confucius

“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.”

H. Fred Dale

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”

Luther Burbank