Gardener Quotes
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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.
Edna Walling
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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.
Bill Mollison
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Bill Vaughan
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
Vita Sackville-West
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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
Allen Lacy
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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.
Barbara Damrosch
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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.
Terence McKenna
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
Alan Chadwick
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Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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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.
Celia Thaxter