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220 Gardener quotes by 176 unique authors

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans… — Susan Hill
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be. — Allen Lacy
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know… — Barbara Damrosch
Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by… — Margery Fish
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in… — Victor Davis Hanson
All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to… — John Selden
The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. — Michael Pollan
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute… — Renata Adler
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and… — Beverley Nichols
As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time. — M. J. Ryan
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is… — David Spangler
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too,… — Nelson Mandela
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules… — William Penn
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one.… — Virginia McKenna
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell… — Adam Carolla
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision… — Kenny Smith
I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow.… — George Harrison
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. — Robert Breault
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. — Michael Pollan

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