Gardener Quotes

Gardener Quote of the day

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

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.

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

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

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.

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.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

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?

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

I work like a gardener.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

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.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

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.

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.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

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.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

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.

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.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

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.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

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