Gardener Quotes - Page 10

• I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Philosopher, Teach

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mother, Forever, Intimate

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

  John Berendt

  Cities, People, Personality

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

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• The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dresses, Tasks, May

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• My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Parent, Environmental

  Source: progressive.org

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• Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

  Mirabel Osler

  Funny, Dirty, Moving

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• Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, People, Individuality

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• We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

  Ron Finley

  Motivation, Inspiration, Gangsta

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• Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

  Nancy Mitford

  Nature, Golf, Garden

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• Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Country, Children, Father

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.222, Random House

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• Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, Benches, Taste

  "The garden bench". Book by Mirabel Osler, 1991.

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• The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Retirement, New York

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Garden, Storm

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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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• 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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• Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

  Karel Capek

  Real, Years, Practice

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

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• One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

  Allen Lacy

  Becoming

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• The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

  Janet Macunovich

  Baby, Killers, Adults

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• Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

  Janet Macunovich

  Apology, Why Not, Firsts

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• One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Important, Doe, Looks

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• People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, Occupation

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

  Michael Caine

  Needs, Gym, Manure

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks 'Is Anybody There?'" by Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

  Alfred Austin

  Philosophy, Heart, Garden

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115, 2008.

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• If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

  Mr. Lee

  Garden, Dedicated, Wells

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