Gardener Quotes - Page 6

• The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

  Kayla Mueller

  Sadness, Compassion, Garbage

  20 Copy quote

• Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Secret, May, Sacred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.95, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Character, Fire, Justice

  "The Emergence of Lincoln". Book by Allan Nevins, p. 387, 1950.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  Ina Garten

  Garden, People, Cooking

  9 Copy quote

• The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

  Carole Radziwill

  Relationship, Flower, Nurture

  12 Copy quote

• As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

  M. J. Ryan

  Patience, Vegetables, Growing

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

  W. H. Auden

  Jobs, Work, Men

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Garden, Apples

  6 Copy quote

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

  John Evelyn

  Years, Next, Ends

  17 Copy quote

• A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.

  Reginald Arkell

  Sweet, Sunshine, Needs

  Reginald Arkell (1938). “More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

  Terry Pratchett

  Vegetables, Blood, Grows

  6 Copy quote

• I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

  Carla Bruni

  Couple, Smart, Garden

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

  Rachel Weisz

  Brother, Daydreaming, Activist

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

  Ken Robinson

  Jobs, Growth, Doe

  7 Copy quote

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

  Karel Capek

  Garden, Littles, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

  Vigen Guroian

  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

  45 Copy quote

• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Machines, Barbarians

  7 Copy quote