Top 100 Gardener Quotes
#1. Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.
Billy Graham
#2. Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.
Julian Of Norwich
#3. However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.
Ann Scott
#4. Can't believe you're making me say this am willing to fill any role required by you i.e. buddy best buddy laborer unpaid driver unpaid gardener unpaid father of your children coat etc just tell me which and how we'll manage come home will square things with your Pa - Charlie
Helen Oyeyemi
#5. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#6. When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.
Steve Goodier
#7. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world ... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
Helen H. Gardener
#8. She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac.
Nell Zink
#9. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
Barbara Damrosch
#10. Look, Lawrence, I know you never cared for me-"
Law cut him off.
"Cared for you? Cared for you? What am I? The gardener?"
"Okay, you always hated me-"
"Better," Law said. "You're wrong of course, but you said what you meant this time.
Jez Morrow
#11. Our days are precious but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing:
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting;
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing.
Hermann Hesse
#12. Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
#13. He is also a keen cook, gardener and birder. He has no middle fingers on one hand, so he can't swear but is permanently doing the heavy metal sign.
Alan Partridge
#14. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
Carrie Fisher
#15. Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
#16. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
Wendell Berry
#17. That gate," said the under-gardener, turning with great deliberation towards the south, and embracing the whole of that part of England with one comprehensive sweep of his arm. "Curious,
Wilkie Collins
#18. The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
H.E. Bates
#19. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"
Richardson Wright
#20. My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
W.C. Fields
#21. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.
Nelson Mandela
#22. and I thought how fucking unfair it was that he made us butterflies, of all things. Real butterflies could fly away, out of reach. The Gardener's Butterflies could only ever fall, and that but rarely.
Dot Hutchison
#23. Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.
Charles De Lint
#24. There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!
Helen H. Gardener
#25. In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
Curtis Stone
#27. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
#28. You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#29. I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
Terry Pratchett
#30. The gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.
W. Somerset Maugham
#31. One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Wendell Berry
#32. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.
Nancy Pearl
#33. Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,
Alison Gopnik
#34. The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.
Ken Robinson
#35. The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.
Carole Radziwill
#36. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.
Ruth Stout
#37. I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.
Mark Pesce
#38. Thorn, Gardener, get it? More skeptical people tended to believe that the Thorn family simply named itself after their high position in the Gardeners. I had my own theory. I thought his name was Thorn because he's a giant prick.
Erica Lindquist
#39. My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry
#40. That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
Aberjhani
#41. My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
Deborah Moggach
#42. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#43. I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.
Ruskin Bond
#44. All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows ...
Wendell Berry
#45. The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing.
Joanne Harris
#48. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.
Gabriel Iqbal
#49. If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.
Mr. Lee
#50. The rain started while we sat in the kitchen, and we left the kitchen door open so we could watch the rain slanting past the doorway and washing the garden; Constance was pleased, the way any good gardener is pleased with rain.
Shirley Jackson
#51. If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.
Gretel Ehrlich
#52. I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Meryl Streep
#53. A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space
a place not just set apart but reverberant
and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.
Michael Pollan
#54. The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves. Who shall see them again, or who wot of them? And who shall say what hath befallen in the days of long ago?
Lord Dunsany
#55. Charming," Puck commented, gazing around in distaste. "I love the barren, dead feel they're going for. Who's the gardener, I wonder? I'd love to get some tips.
Julie Kagawa
#56. Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.
William Lawson
#57. Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.
Bill Bryson
#59. As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.
Robert Breault
#60. As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.
Diane Dreher
#61. If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
Michael Caine
#62. He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.
If he has enough charm or elegance to convince.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#63. Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.
Michael Pollan
#64. His newborn faith had suffered with no one to water the sprouting seeds, and he would be hard pressed to find such a gardener in the weed-choked kingdom of
Mizgalia.
Nicole Sager
#65. I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. John 15:1
Anonymous
#66. What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
Thomas Huxley
#67. After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.
Karel Capek
#68. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian
#69. He's an avant-gardener whose great work includes the famous minimalist garden at Kew which was just a daisy and three wittily arranged grass stems.
Ben Moor
#70. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
Robert Breault
#71. My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch
#72. Looking at these pictures,
I wonder,
did that part of me
that flourished around him,
like prized perennials
under a tender gardener's care,
die along with him?
Lisa Schroeder
#73. He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.
Thomas Merton
#75. At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
Juliana Hatfield
#76. As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Thick lashes lifted, a moment of pure clarity in the dark gray as Noah wrapped his arm around her waist. "Meant to ask you to marry me, put the ring in the plant soil, but gardener made me drunk. He's so small. What happened?"
Nalini Singh
#78. It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
Alan Chadwick
#79. On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
Tan Twan Eng
#80. The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
Vita Sackville-West
#81. I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.
Justin Hartley
#82. You don't have to be the greatest gardener in the world to make a difference--You just need a gnome.
Donna Hamill
#83. A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
Alan Chadwick
#84. In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Kin Hubbard
#85. Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.
John De Ruiter
#86. The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.
Phyllis McGinley
#87. There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.
Karel Capek
#88. Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.
Thalassa Cruso
#89. What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan DeCarlo
#90. People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
John Le Carre
#91. Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind, weeding out the thoughts of lack, limitation, and negativity. You must nurture and tend the thoughts of happiness, success, and purpose.
Randy Gage
#92. I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
Blythe Danner
#93. I am a gardener of thoughts, and my garden only grows flowers of love.
Debasish Mridha
#94. A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.
Rosemary Verey
#95. It came to me then that we're each something of a constant gardener of a million forgotten galaxies, a librarian of lost places and times, a curator of a museum of random details that really only matter to each of us.
Jonathan Riggs
#96. A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.
Reginald Arkell
#97. Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal.
Carol Deppe
#98. A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
#99. Will you return to your home if Prince Grotto's reign is ended?"
"Yes. It is home."
"Will you take me back as your gardener?
Terry Spear
#100. An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.
Leslie Hall
