Gardener Quotes - Page 2

• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Morning, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Garden, Firsts

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Dance, Flower

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

  Mary Cantwell

  Dream, Garden, Thinking

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Humor, Garden

  Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

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• We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Garden, Thinking, Voice

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

  Karel Capek

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Weed, Jobs

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• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  Wind, Energy, Want

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Return

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• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Garden, Thinking, Religion

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• I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

  Suzy Bogguss

  Home, Garden, Play

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• We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

  Guy Laliberte

  Nice, Believe, Garden

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• At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

  Mirabel Osler

  Heart, Garden, Belief

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Garden

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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

  Leslie Hall

  Believe, Optimistic, Garden

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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• 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.

  Lillie Langtry

  Drawing, Salary, Agents

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• I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Garden

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

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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