Top 100 Gardener Quotes
#1. The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor.
And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to
that garden or is yet to be grown.
Kedar Joshi
#2. My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#3. In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#4. There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
Vita Sackville-West
#5. Spoken like a true gardener," Rakeed observed, popping a date ring into his mouth. "Usara's official stance is, of course, spleen." "Spleen?" Penir asked with a frown. "Spleen. Too much or too little. That's always a physician's answer." "That doesn't make any sense.
Fiona Patton
#6. Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.
Hermann Hesse
#8. The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#9. Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
Eric Sevareid
#10. It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It's hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.
Jordi Molla
#11. Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Bill Vaughan
#12. Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.
Seth Adam Smith
#13. It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.
Rajneesh
#14. One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.
Thalassa Cruso
#15. I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.
Tristan MacManus
#16. A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
Beverley Nichols
#17. By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.
Henry Mitchell
#18. It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.
Robin Hobb
#19. So he stayed in Newport for a while to see if he had a destiny there. He worked as a gardener and carpenter on the famous Rumfoord Estate.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
Henry James Byron
#23. If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.
If I was lucky, he'd have a long cultivator.
Tracy H. Tucker
#24. The words of the rose to the rose floated up in his mind: "No gardener has died, comma, within rosaceous memory." He sang a little song, he drank his bottle of stout, he dashed away a tear, he made himself comfortable.
So it goes in the world.
Samuel Beckett
#25. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
Reginald Farrer
#26. The woman who engaged him had no idea that her gardener was one of the most distinguished scientists in Britain until a friend came for tea one day and, looking out the window, casually asked: "My dear, why is the Nobel laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg pruning your hedges?" Late
Bill Bryson
#27. The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at
Dean Cavanagh
#28. I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
#29. Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.
Debasish Mridha
#30. We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).
Kenny Smith
#31. But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...
Vita Sackville-West
#32. I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.
Pawan Kalyan
#33. Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener ... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
Renata Adler
#34. 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 for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.
Susan Hill
#36. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
Margery Fish
#37. It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
Beverley Nichols
#39. The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
Ken Thompson
#40. The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
Samuel Rutherford
#42. Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.
Robin Lane Fox
#43. When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things this person or that did with his body.
W. Somerset Maugham
#44. From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#45. It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.
Sondra Faye
#46. A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will smell sweet for hours after pruning the canes.
Alice Hoffman
#47. As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
Robert Breault
#48. It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.
Mark Ruffalo
#49. For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
Ken Thompson
#50. I only do His will, replied Death. I am his gardener. I take all His flowers and trees, and transplant them into the gardens of Paradise in an unknown land. How they flourish there, and what that garden resembles, I may not tell you.
Hans Christian Andersen
#51. But he [the gardener] works in a fourth dimension as well: time.
Sarah Rose
#52. Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.
Eleanor Perenyi
#53. You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
Janet Macunovich
#54. Because despair was an excess that did not belong to him, he submitted to what was left of his life, and began again to look after it, with the unyielding tenacity of a gardener at work the morning after the storm.
Alessandro Baricco
#55. 'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
John Burnside
#56. You are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny. - THE FINDHORN COMMUNITY
Cindy Trimm
#57. A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]
John Charles Polanyi
#58. There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener
Jonathan Auxier
#59. You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.
Jones Loflin
#60. We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
Josh Radnor
#61. The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener.
Joanna Cannon
#62. Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.
Mabel Osgood Wright
#63. Unless the Gardener was visiting you, darkness in the Garden was the closest we got to truth.
Dot Hutchison
#64. Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.
Henry Mitchell
#65. In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.
Robert Rodale
#67. As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon
#68. I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.
Kristen Bell
#69. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.
Jerome K. Jerome
#70. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
John F. Kennedy
#71. I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.
Michael Pollan
#72. should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'?
Paulo Coelho
#73. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.
Jean Shrimpton
#74. I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
Ben Stiller
#75. I am a gardener of life, the heart is my garden, love is my flower, and joy is the fragrance.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Be a gardener to grow trees of trust and flowers of love.
Debasish Mridha
#77. The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.
Harry Hooton
#78. Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.
Henry Morton Stanley
#79. A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
John Evelyn
#80. 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
#81. 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 atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.
Susan Hill
#82. Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.
Ron Finley
#84. You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
Alain Ducasse
#85. The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.
Alan Chadwick
#86. Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Rudyard Kipling
#87. I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills ... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.
George Washington
#88. Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.
Marta McDowell
#89. He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.
Oscar Wilde
#90. I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.
Anton Du Beke
#91. Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.
Seth Adam Smith
#92. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
#93. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Louisa May Alcott
#94. Was your mom a gardener?' I asked innocently.
'What?' Ren's mouth hung open slightly.
'Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#95. I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
John Lennon
#96. Jesus is the Master Gardener. He's the Second Adam, the true and obedient Son of God, tasked with caring for God's garden and protecting it from evil, fulfilling the mandates God had given in the beginning, mandates Adam failed to complete (Genesis 1:28).11
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#97. I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.
George Harrison
#98. Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#99. Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.
C.S. Lewis
#100. Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
Stephen Covey
