Gardener Quotes - page 3

Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet. (Vita Sackville-West)
Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens. View quote
Louis Sullivan
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. View quote
Juliana Hatfield
Where there's no gardener, there's no garden. View quote
Stephen Covey
To the gardener who goes about his task with the right spirit must every plant appear as the most wonderful of laboratories in which miracles of transformation, outmatching the utmost feats of the most skillful conjurer, are being performed every hour. View quote
Luther Burbank
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. View quote
Francis Bacon
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. View quote
Terry Pratchett
...teeth set out by a landscape gardener... View quote
Addison Mizner
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. (Brian Eno)
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either. View quote
Meryl Streep
Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him! View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' View quote
John F. Kennedy
After I finish my term as president, I want to be a happy volunteer. As I have said before, our democratic reform is still ongoing and it must continue to be consolidated and deepened. But there is still a lot we could do regarding strengthening Taiwan-centric consciousness as well as realizing social equity and justice. I think I could be of assistance in this regard. Apart from being a happy volunteer, I also wish to make some contribution as a pusher and a cultivator and a gardener on Taiwan's road to democracy. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
Two good books to read: A Life Full of Holes, Charhadi/I Work Like a Gardener, Joan Miró. View quote
Grace Paley
Unity must be sought for with all diligence. In unity there is not only strength but beauty. Cultivate unity as a wise gardener cultivates his garden, tending carefully each new bud and shoot. Unity follows every true manifestation of love and graces each achievement of the spirit. Take unity as your banner and walk the way of power. Unity makes all things possible. Without unity nothing is certain; the finest possibilities come to dust. Achievement lies in the right use of the given capacities; lacking unity, the highest potential may be wasted. View quote
Benjamin Creme
In Paradise perchance the eye may stray from gazing upon everlasting Day to see the day-illumined, and renew from mirrored truth the likeness of the True. Then looking on the Blessed Land 'twill see that all is as it is, and yet made free: Salvation changes not, nor yet destroys, garden nor gardener, children nor their toys. Evil will not see, for evil lies not in God's picture but in crooked eyes, not in the source but in malicious choice, and not in sound but in the tuneless voice. In Paradise they no more look awry; and though they make anew, they make no lie. Be sure they still will make, not being dead, and poets shall have flames upon their head, and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall: there each shall choose for ever from the All. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
But perhaps I lack the gift. I see I've described her as being like a sword. That's true as far as it goes. But utterly inadequate by itself, and misleading. I ought to have said 'But also like a garden. Like a nest of gardens, wall within wall, hedge within hedge, more secret, more full of fragrant and fertile life, the further you explore.' And then, of her, and every created thing I praise, I should say 'in some way, in its unique way, like Him who made it.' Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. View quote
C. S. Lewis