One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener. — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers. — Reginald Arkell Copy Share Image
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.” — Sir Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you… — Barbara Damrosch Copy Share Image
Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a...garden planted. Something your hand touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image