Native Plants Quotes

“Your leaf litter can be home to a rich assortment of native plants while it is fertilizing, mulching, and watering your land.”
― Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

“Butterflies used to reproduce on the native plants that grew in our yards before the plants were bulldozed and replaced with lawn. To have butterflies in our future, we need to replace those lost host plants, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If we do not, butterfly populations will continue to decline with every new house that is built.”
― Douglas Tallamy

“We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.”
― Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

“One of our first gifts is the ability to pay attention with all our senses and come to know the world. When we know the beings around us, we can't help but celebrate the gifts they share with us every day. And so our next gift is gratitude. And that thankfulness spills out when we ask ourselves: "What gift could I give, in return for all I've been given?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bud Finds Her Gift

“My hope is that this glimpse into Bud's journey will inspire readers of all ages to understand we each have a special gift and are part of the great gift exchange of life. In the face of our shared ecological and social challenges, I hope you will feel your own importance and purpose and know that you are needed, that you belong, and that giving your gifts can help to create and nurture a beautiful, sustainable world where all life can flourish.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bud Finds Her Gift

“Individuals don’t change or evolve; the genetic makeup of the population does, though the population is composed of individuals.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“Climate change is talked about everywhere as a threat to humanity’s future, but most people seem entirely oblivious to the almost greater threat of habitat destruction and land clearance.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“When I started to learn botany and experience actual intact ecosystems, I came to see just how disconnected from ecological reality most of my society was.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance