Gardener Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Marriage, Garden, Partners

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• 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

  Weed, Garden, Afternoon

  Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.54, Pavilion Books

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• All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

  John Selden

  Pain, Giving, Apricots

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.44

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

  Orson Welles

  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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• The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

  Michael Pollan

  Doe, Recognition, Mystery

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Blue, Long, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Garden, Air, Dramatic

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• 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

  Eye, Garden, Cities

  Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

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

  M. J. Ryan

  Patience, Vegetables, Growing

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

  Carole Radziwill

  Relationship, Flower, Nurture

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• To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is not a typical hero's task. It is more the task of a gardener. The planet does not offer us challenges to be overcome to prove our worth or individuality; it presents us with a community to understand, a community with disparate needs and identities that are nonetheless intertwined in mutual dependencies.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Future, Thinking

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• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religion, Gardening, Done

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

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Roots, Vices, Facts

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• In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. 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

  Responsibility, Garden, Leader

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• Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

  William Penn

  Practice, Ignorant, Pace

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Teacher, Elephants, Ivory

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• 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

  Philosophy, Self, Taste

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• 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?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Law, Tree

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• 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

  Party, Flower, Home

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• As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

  Robert Breault

  Flower, Exercise, Matter

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• Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

  Michael Pollan

  Pride, Evil, Affliction

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Nature, Strong, Smell

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• 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

  Two, Nails, Firsts

  Interview with John Birmingham, www.goodreads.com. May 15, 2013.

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

  Vita Sackville-West

  Cat, Should Have, Gardening

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