Gardener Quotes · Page 3

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

— Robert Harbison

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

— Thomas Jefferson

“He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.”

— Oscar Wilde

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

— Rosemary Verey

I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

— Clive Anderson

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a…

— William Lawson

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples…

— Karel Capek

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

— Eric Sevareid

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to…

— Ben Stiller

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

— Helen DeWitt

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't…

— Mira Nair

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed…

— Alfred Austin

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to…

— Ketzel Levine

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find…

— Rachel Weisz

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting…

— Jamaica Kincaid

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting…

— Karel Capek

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and…

— Nhat Hanh

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity…

— Wendell Berry

The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it.…

— Gordon Korman

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

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

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

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

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of…

— William Penn

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his…

— Nelson Mandela

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world…

— Assata Shakur

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Alan Chadwick

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

— Michael Pollan

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

— Louise Erickson

“It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.”

— Robin Hobb

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

— Alain Ducasse

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

— Pawan Kalyan

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

— Mabel Osgood Wright