Gardeners Quotes

71 quotes by 65 authors

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
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
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
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. — Mary Cantwell
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton
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
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… — Francis Cabot
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
What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse
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
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare
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
The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. — Harry Hooton

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