Gardener Quotes · Page 3

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

— Kin Hubbard

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

— Aberjhani

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

— Ken Thompson

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

— Robert Rodale

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

— Alan Chadwick

“A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

— Robert Breault

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

— Robert Breault

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

— Suzy Bogguss

Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a…

— Julie Moir Messervy

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

— Charles Lamb

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze…

— W. C. Fields

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

— Robert Orben

“You are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny. —THE FINDHORN COMMUNITY”

— Cindy Trimm

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it…

— Michael Pollan

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more…

— Ina Garten

If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow…

— Tracy H. Tucker

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within…

— Mark Pesce

Death used to be an executioner, but the resurrection of Christ makes him nothing but a gardener. When he tries to bury…

— George Herbert

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the…

— Roger Swain

Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a…

— Gwendoline Christie

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind…

— Colin Wilson

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire…

— Anthony de Mello

“SERVANT. Have mercy upon your servant, my queen! QUEEN. The assembly is over and my servants are all gone. Why do you…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…

— Vita Sackville-West

Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my…

— Neil Gaiman

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations…

— Richardson Wright

Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He…

— Karel Capek

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

— Louisa May Alcott

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

— Janet Macunovich

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

— Alfred Austin

Life without friends is like a garden without a gardener.

— Innah Delos Angeles

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

— Alan Chadwick