Gardener Quotes - Page 9

• Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

  Julian of Norwich

  Running, Sweet, Spring

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• Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Generations, Next

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

  Diane Dreher

  Wise, Team, Common Vision

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• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Understanding, Taught

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. August 7, 2017.

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• I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

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

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Years, Generations

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.

  Ann Scott

  Fall, Garden, Two

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• I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"

  Karel Capek

  Real, Flower, Men

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

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• Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

  Thomas Browne

  Garden, Earth, Hours

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.386

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• 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.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Live In The Moment, Quality

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• It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

  Beverley Nichols

  Years, Giving, Stealing

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.126, Timber Press

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• There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

  Karel Capek

  Garden, Littles, Way

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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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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Faith, Encouragement

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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

  John Evelyn

  Years, Next, Ends

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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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• 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.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophy, Men, Garden

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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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• 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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