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Gardener Quotes by Susan Hill
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
More Gardener Quotes
- 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"… — Henry Beston
- In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of… — 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… — Henry Mitchell
- I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Rudyard Kipling
- The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner