Gardener Quotes - Page 14

• As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Two, Tree

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• I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, War, Struggle

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• If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

  Jean Shrimpton

  Thinking, Way, Earning

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• Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

  Bill Vaughan

  Weed, Garden, Ifs

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• On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Garden, Heaven

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• I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

  Clive Anderson

  Thinking, Natural

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• The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

  Robert Fortune

  Garden, House, Sides

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.141

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• When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

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• If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.

  Hammurabi

  Lying, Garden, Land

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• With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

  Alan Moore

  Practice, Ideas, Growth

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• It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

  Alan Chadwick

  Garden

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• The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.

  Harry Hooton

  Garden, Giving, Rose

  Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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• I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Balance, Roles

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• At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Heart, Bird, Monk

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• Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Weed, Garden, Evil

  Henry Morton Stanley (1909). “The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ...”

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• I work like a gardener.

  Joan Miro

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• The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Names, Wings, Rose

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1971). “Collected poems”, Not Avail

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• You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Vegetables, Soul, Carrots

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

  Henry Mitchell

  Spring, Too Late, Hot Days

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.17, Indiana University Press

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• Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

  Alison Gopnik

  Giving, Tree, Brain

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• One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Husband, Home

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
  reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
  This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
  for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
  the planting,
  after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

  Marge Piercy

  Long, Growth, Digging

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Artist, Doubt, These Days

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• Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Law, Agriculture, Political

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