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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. -- Jean Cocteau
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. -- George Balanchine
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. -- Blythe Danner
I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day. -- Kristen Bell
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. -- Lillie Langtry
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. -- Ben Stiller
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. -- Jack Welch
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. -- Jeffrey Donovan
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. -- Bertrand Russell
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. -- Guy Laliberte
The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener. -- Alan Chadwick
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. -- Mary Cantwell
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically. -- John Lennon
I like to think of myself as a natural gardener. -- Clive Anderson
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. -- Joseph Joubert
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. -- Thomas Jefferson
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. -- Robert Breault
You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required. -- Alain Ducasse
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? -- Hilary Mantel
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. -- Ken Thompson
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. -- Juliana Hatfield
I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden. -- Pawan Kalyan
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. -- James Allen
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with -- Suzy Bogguss
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. -- Suzy Bogguss
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds. -- Josh Radnor
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. -- Terry Pratchett
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. -- Judah P. Benjamin
As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation. -- Susan Collins
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. -- Vita Sackville-West
I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots. -- Justin Hartley
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. -- Wendell Berry
So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. -- Robert Fortune
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 love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. -- David Duchovny
I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps. -- Curtis Stone
Poet: gardener of epitaphs. -- Octavio Paz
I work like a gardener. -- Joan Miro
Where there's no gardener, there's no garden. -- Stephen Covey
I am a gardener of infinite time. -- Toru Takemitsu
The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. -- Harry Hooton
One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener. -- Allen Lacy
I'm not a gardener. I wish I was. -- Kate Winslet
If there is no gardener there is no garden. -- Stephen Covey
Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent. -- Penelope Hobhouse
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied. -- H. E. Bates
A good gardener looks at every plant every day. -- Alan Chadwick
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -- Louisa May Alcott
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds? -- Bill Vaughan
A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener. -- Rosemary Verey
Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden. -- Debasish Mridha
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope. -- Vita Sackville-West
As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. -- Fennel Hudson
In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. -- Robert Rodale
An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. -- Leslie Hall
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. -- Aberjhani
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. -- Eric Sevareid
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. -- Michael Pollan
One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable. -- Elsa Bakalar
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener. -- Jared Harris
The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms. -- Carole Radziwill
If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener. -- Mr. Lee
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. -- Michael Pollan
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener. -- Alan Chadwick
You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape. -- Janet Macunovich
Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even. -- Mabel Osgood Wright
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. -- St. Catherine of Siena
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. -- Francis Bacon
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. -- Henry James Byron
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. -- Katharine Sergeant Angell White
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. -- Karel Capek
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. -- John Evelyn
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over. -- Michael Caine
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. -- Ken Robinson
A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers. -- Reginald Arkell
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals. -- Beverley Nichols
There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. -- Vita Sackville-West
I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend. -- Anton du Beke
We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. -- Ron Finley
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. -- Robert Breault
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. -- Thalassa Cruso
Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible. -- Marta McDowell
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers. -- Charles R. Swindoll
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. -- Robert Breault
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth -- Ken Robinson
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. -- John Irving
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. -- Mirabel Osler
As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time. -- M. J. Ryan
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. -- Rudyard Kipling
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. -- Dan DeCarlo
The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion. -- Kayla Mueller
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. -- Bill Mollison
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener. -- Mark Ruffalo
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... -- Vita Sackville-West
Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit". -- Max Lucado
Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing. -- Karel Capek
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. -- Ken Thompson
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. -- Charles de Lint
Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener. -- John de Ruiter
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free. -- Alice Oswald
You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape, -- Alison Gopnik
So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER! -- Stephen King
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught. -- Michael Pollan
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. -- Meryl Streep
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass. -- W. C. Fields
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
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent. -- Janet Macunovich
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. -- Henry Mitchell
Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener. -- Bill Bryson
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched. -- Henry Morton Stanley

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