Gardener Quotes - Page 16

• It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Pride, Actors, Treats

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

  Colin Wilson

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• 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.

  Ken Thompson

  Years, Gardening, Connections

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• A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

  Adam Smith

  Character, Garden, Hands

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.65

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• 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. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Entrepreneur, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Country, Aunt

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.292, The Floating Press

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• For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds.  And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

  Michael Pollan

  Weed, Roles, Earth

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Flower, Garden

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• 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

  Garden, Swim, Soul

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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• It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

  Rajneesh

  What Matters, Shoes, Creating

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