Evil Quote by Helen DeWitt

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow…

— John W. Gardner

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

— Adolph Murie

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

— Henry Mitchell

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

— Loretta Lynn

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Gardening is not a rational act.

— Margaret Atwood

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

— George H. Brimhall

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

— Anonymous

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

— Allen Lacy

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

— Alfred Austin

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

— Helen Mirren