Gardener Quotes
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If you're a gardener you don't need a gym... You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.
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The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.
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One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.
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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
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It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.
