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
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
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
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession… — Judah P. Benjamin Copy Share Image
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“SERVANT. Have mercy upon your servant, my queen! QUEEN. The assembly is over and my servants are all gone. Why do you… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of… — William Penn 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
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
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
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
An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. — Leslie Hall Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. — Ron Finley Copy Share Image
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is… — Reginald Farrer 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
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
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
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