Top 260 Gardener Quotes & Sayings

I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

I work like a gardener.

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.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

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

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and some day, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down, for caring enough about me to hurt me. Thank you, Mr. Gardener.’

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

The people of Pennsylvania don't owe me a mansion with a chef and a gardener.

A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.

Well, I wouldn't say I am a keen gardener... I'm a gardener. Well, by that I mean I've got a very nice garden and have got some very good gardeners.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

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.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the gardener's notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and chasm of the heart.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.

I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.

I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

I'm a flower gardener.

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

If I hadn't been an actor, I'd be a gardener.

I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.