Gardener Quotes
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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth.
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
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Garden as though you will live forever.
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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.
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If there is no gardener there is no garden.
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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
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There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
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Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs the basics, but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
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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.
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
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One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.
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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.
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A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
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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.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
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So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.
