Top 100 Quotes About Gardeners: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gardeners

#1. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

#2. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

#3. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

#4. We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Carol Deppe

#5. 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

#6. Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.

Luci Shaw

#7. 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

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

Henry Mitchell

#9. All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Joseph Joubert

#10. 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 things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ...

Edna Walling

#11. The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing ...

Hazel Hawke

#12. Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine.

Karen White

#13. In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Mark Helprin

#14. Come, my spade; there is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers; they hold up Adam's profession.

William Shakespeare

#15. I dream, one day the consciousness of the countries will be so high that they will be ashamed to place military on the international borders. All international borders will be place for the tourist, gardeners and cultural celebration.

Amit Ray

#16. Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

Martha Stewart

#17. We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

Cristen Rodgers

#18. Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

Emo Philips

#19. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

Virginia McKenna

#20. Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

Peter Cundall

#21. There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#22. Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Mary Cantwell

#23. Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

Bryant McGill

#25. Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.

Salman Rushdie

#26. Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton

#27. Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.

Robert Aitken

#28. Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

Janet Macunovich

#29. 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 and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.

Susan Hill

#30. Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

Rosemary Verey

#31. Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

Helen DeWitt

#32. The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#33. Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Henry Ward Beecher

#34. Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the Gardeners used to say.

Margaret Atwood

#35. People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

Omar Sharif

#36. You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

Pearl Cleage

#37. We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Beverley Nichols

#38. The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

Robert Fortune

#39. There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

George R R Martin

#40. A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

#41. We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

J. Maarten Troost

#42. Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

Kathleen Quinlan

#43. It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Wayne Winterrowd

#44. The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

Guy Wetmore Carryl

#45. Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

Barbara Kingsolver

#46. As gardeners-without-borders we must ask ourselves bigger questions like: Where did these materials arise and at what cost to the place that begot them? Of course the synthetic fertilizer loses on every score; it's not even in the running. It gives us no answers; it ignores the questions.

Will Bonsall

#47. Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

Alan Titchmarsh

#48. Why, they took nouns that were signs of things which gave evidence of wealth, - housekeepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds, and all such things; and each one formed her speech so as to bring them all in, in the prettiest accidental manner possible.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#49. A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend.

Bryant McGill

#50. What do gardeners do when they retire?

Bob Monkhouse

#51. Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment

Neal Stephenson

#52. So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Ken Thompson

#53. Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

#54. 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

#55. Visualize your strongest desire, the Gardeners used to say, and it will manifest; which doesn't always work, or not as intended. Her

Margaret Atwood

#56. Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

Marcel Proust

#57. Let us be guardians, not gardeners

Adolph Murie

#58. I glanced at Aphrodite, who sat next to Hera and could have easily graced the front cover of every magazine and newspaper in the world ever. Hell, Gardeners World would have put her on the cover to sell a few copies.

Steve McHugh

#59. I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

Ken Robinson

#60. Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.

Ken Robinson

#61. Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

Sebastian Faulks

#62. Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Robert Orben

#63. Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.

Roger Swain

#64. When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

Amish Tripathi

#65. Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#66. The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.

Justine Kurland

#67. 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, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

Henry Beston

#68. Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Cabot Lowell

#69. With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth ... But we as gardeners, must beware ... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin ... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Moore

#70. Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It's not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers, Arden. It's that we both must be both, each in our own time.

Leila Sales

#71. One of these days, I would doubt the Gardeners a little too much and Zach was going to play handball with my head.

Erica Lindquist

#72. Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

Janet Macunovich

#73. They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

Ina Garten

#74. Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom.

Marcel Proust

#75. They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

Paulo Coelho

#76. Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Ralph Fiennes

#77. Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Nancy Mitford

#78. 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

#79. Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

Janet Macunovich

#80. True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

May Sarton

#81. Writers are like gardeners - they have to prune to get to the beauty of their creation.

Lee Rene

#82. It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

Robert Irwin

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

Bryant McGill

#84. You create your own world by your inner attitude, the Gardeners used to say.

Margaret Atwood

#85. Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Susan Collins

#86. All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

Allen Lacy

#87. She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the papers - awful, as usual - their golf, their gardeners, and the detective stories they were reading.

Stella Gibbons

#88. I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

Marta McDowell

#89. Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Thomas Browne

#90. 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 than they have ever done before.

Vita Sackville-West

#91. I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.

Margery Fish

#92. The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.

Harry Hooton

#93. I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Mary McGrory

#94. I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

John Burnside