Best Gardener Quotes
220 Gardener quotes by 176 unique authors
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
— Aberjhani
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The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
— Henry James Byron
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime…
— Unknown Author
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Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft…
— Susan Hill
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he…
— John Evelyn
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What do gardeners do when they retire?
— Bob Monkhouse
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Charles Edward Jefferson
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as…
— Marjorie Harris
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Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends…
— Henry Mitchell
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
— William Shakespeare
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There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all…
— Edna Walling
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The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.
— Harry Hooton
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The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important…
— Hazel Hawke
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Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!
— Peter Cundall
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do…
— Unknown Author
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is…
— Freya Stark
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This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the…
— Susan Hill
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The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment,…
— Susan Hill
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From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and…
— Justin Hartley
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