Gardeners Quotes
71 quotes by 65 authors
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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
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Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
— Henry Mitchell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
— Joseph Joubert
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Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.
— Mary Cantwell
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Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
— May Sarton
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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…
— Francis Cabot
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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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What do gardeners do when they retire?
— Bob Monkhouse
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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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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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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
Who Wrote These Gardeners Quotes
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