Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. — Henry James Byron Copy Share Image
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course,… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A… — Ann Scott Copy Share Image
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener… She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate,… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a gardener really. I'm hopeless, so I don't really get involved with it that much. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms. — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care… — George H. Brimhall Copy Share Image
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. — John Irving Copy Share Image
With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Flowers from the garden so no one can take off the flower's fault? Should also take care of the flower gardener — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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