Gardener Quotes - Page 16

• The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

  George H. Brimhall

  School, Men, Care

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• Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Water, Healthy, Doe

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.189, Random House

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• It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Pride, Actors, Treats

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

  Helen DeWitt

  School, Roots, Evil

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• Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

  Richardson Wright

  Life, Nature, Successful

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• It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

  Wayne Winterrowd

  Children, Gardening, Sometimes

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• I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

  Colin Wilson

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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• For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

  Ken Thompson

  Years, Gardening, Connections

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• A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

  Adam Smith

  Character, Garden, Hands

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.65

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• Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Entrepreneur, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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