Gardener Quotes

• One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Race

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• Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Garden, Guitar, Color

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  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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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Giving, Essentials

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Exercise, Garden, Imagination

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• The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

  H. E. Bates

  Garden, Artist, Satisfied

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• I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

  Martha Smith

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

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• It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

  Kate Morton

  Garden, Hands, Earth

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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• I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

  Blythe Danner

  Thinking, Being There, Film

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Educational, Writing

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Growth, Shapes, Doe

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 33-34, 1978.

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• What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  People, Thumbs, Green

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• A good garden may have some weeds.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivational, Weed, Garden

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• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

  Jean Cocteau

  Nurse, Rose, Poetry

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

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• As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Garden, Evidence Of God

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Gardening

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• If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

  Jared Harris

  Looks, Graves, Grants

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• In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

  Robert Rodale

  Garden, Land, Made

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• There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

  Henry Mitchell

  Nature, Pride, Garden

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press

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• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  Beverley Nichols

  Men, Would Be, World

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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