Gardener Quotes

220 quotes by 184 authors

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. — James Allen
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,… — Henry Beston
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin… — W S Merwin
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts… — Henry Mitchell
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant… — Reginald Farrer
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. — Henry Mitchell
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better… — Vita Sackville-West
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. — Thomas Jefferson
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. — Mary Cantwell
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied. — H E Bates
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be… — Thomas Huxley

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