Gardener Quotes · Page 5

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

— Bill Vaughan

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

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

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

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

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

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

— H. E. Bates

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

— Robert Breault

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

This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of…

— Susan Hill

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

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a…

— John Charles Polanyi

Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds…

— Ina May Gaskin

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and…

— Mako

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we…

— Marge Piercy

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you…

— Hugh B. Brown

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our…

— William Shakespeare

The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of…

— Nhat Hanh

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the…

— Henry Mitchell

“You designed the garden then?" "Oh no, 'twasn't meself at all. His lordship did all the work. Had drawings and lists of…

— Tracy Anne Warren

Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is…

— Mirabel Osler

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

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

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

— Pawan Kalyan

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

— Alain Ducasse

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