Seedling Quotes

“It's when the seed grows up that it is known as a tree. Nobody calls the "seedlings" as "trees" and no seedling is ever useful because it doesn't produce fruits! You got to grow up!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Kusha pushes the last of her long screw into the soil, another expensive thing she bought from the Old City. The almost-broken, two-inch seedling now stands supported. Guilt, partly for a tiny seedling, slightly more for being an unobservant, untouchable human who isn’t graded yet.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Early settlers loved the precious cuttings that they nurtured on long voyages. Able to carry only a few belongings in their boats and wagons, thousands of families packed a living reminder of loveliness alongside the bare necessities.
One finds such roses still blooming beside wayside taverns where they stopped. They color long-abandoned wells and broken wagon wheels in pink and white. They flower like yellow sunrise around the doorways of the frontier homes those families built.
And along old cart tracks through the woods, they still offer comfort to those who didn't make it. A titled tiny gravestone -- Abigail, aged 2 years, 4 months, 1 day -- and beside it the red rose of never-ending love that blooms again each June.”
― Aurelia C. Scott, Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening

“A young elm seedling or sapling, in a wood that is open to the browsing of sheep, goats or ponies, has about as much chance of survival as a lettuce in a rabbit hutch!”
― Herbert L. Edlin, The Living Forest: A History of Trees and Timbers