Doe Quote by Michael Pollan

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so…

— Michael Pollan

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

— Karel Capek

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he…

— Freya Stark

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

— Francis Bacon

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a…

— Karel Capek

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

— Thomas Berry

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

“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he…

— Henry Mitchell