Gardener Quotes - Page 9

• All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what you were thinking when you began. What it really means to be a good gardener is to work hard to produce an ecosystem that will have enough diversity, enough possibilities, so it's robust, and it's resilient, and it can change when the seasons change. And that kind of robust, unexpected, variable, messy system - that's what you want to create when you're having children, too.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Mean, Hard Work

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Health, Garden

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]

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• So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

  Ernest Holmes

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.

  David E. Cooper

  Humility, Practice, Gardening

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

  Henry Mitchell

  War, Flower, Garden

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Art, Nature, Flower

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

  Hope Mirrlees

  Pain, Heart, Pride

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.

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• Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

  Emo Philips

  Block, Suffering, Gardening

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. But it all changes after that. You get a great car, a great job. You got a wife, kids, you got your health. But then your company is sold out from under you, your stocks tank, your wife's sleeping with the gardener and your teenage daughter is pregnant. And you notice that you have a prostate so hard, you can actually take a hammer to it. But hey, not one zit.

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Jobs, Teenage

  "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.

  Justine Kurland

  Fall, Eden, Perfect

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• There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

  George R. R. Martin

  Two, Nails, Firsts

  Interview with John Birmingham, www.goodreads.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Order, Growth

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• My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

  W. C. Fields

  Ambition, Orange Trees, Glasses

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• A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Sunshine, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.129, Harmony

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• I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

  George Washington

  Marijuana, India, Sowing

  George Washington's Letter to William Pearce, founders.archives.gov. February 24, 1794.

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Men, Cedars

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

  W. S. Merwin

  Garden, Thinking, Design

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• Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Father, Branches

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

  Stephen King

  Crash, Bash, Nicholson

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• My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Children, Lazy

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big is the lock?" Jonah laughed. "There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed.

  Gordon Korman

  Keys, Cities, Two

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• For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Flower, Book, Men

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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• I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

  Bill Mollison

  Garden, People, Philosopher

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

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