Best Gardener Wisdom

220 Gardener quotes by 176 unique authors

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. — William Shakespeare
They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to… — Paulo Coelho
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We… — Neil Gaiman
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me… — Michael Pollan
You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill… — Pearl Cleage
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll… — Vera Nazarian
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it… — Francesca Lia Block
Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building,… — Paulo Coelho
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we… — William Shakespeare
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically. — John Lennon
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them… — Stefan Zweig
The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big… — Gordon Korman
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's… — Stephen King
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance,… — W S Merwin
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior… — Terry McMillan
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we… — Hope Mirrlees
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at… — John Berendt
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some… — Alan Moore
If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and… — Sebastian Faulks
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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