Gardener Quotes
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.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".
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.
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.
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
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.
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.
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with
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.
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.
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
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.
One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.
If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.
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.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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.
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
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.
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.
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.
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.
