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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again. -- Ken Thompson
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. -- Ralph Fiennes
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. -- Francis Cabot Lowell
Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists. -- Amy Stewart
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. -- Mary Cantwell
Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. -- Janet Macunovich
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions. -- Janet Macunovich
Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening. -- Janet Macunovich
People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking. -- Omar Sharif
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another. -- Susan Hill
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. -- May Sarton
I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space. -- John Burnside
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. -- Martha Stewart
Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. -- Kathleen Quinlan
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. -- Robert Fortune
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. -- Mark Helprin
They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love. -- Ina Garten
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. -- Robert Irwin
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. -- Martha Stewart
We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events. -- J. Maarten Troost
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. -- Diane Ackerman
Let us be guardians, not gardeners -- Adolph Murie
What do gardeners do when they retire? -- Bob Monkhouse
The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. -- Harry Hooton
When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom. -- Amish Tripathi
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature. -- Bryant H. McGill
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. -- Joseph Joubert
Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. -- Thomas Browne
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. -- May Sarton
Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. -- Emo Philips
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. -- Robert Orben
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let plants identify me. -- Robert Aitken
Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools. -- Helen DeWitt
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. -- Rosemary Verey
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. -- Henry Mitchell
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace. -- Beverley Nichols
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be. -- Allen Lacy
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. -- William Shakespeare
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things. -- Orson Welles
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher. -- Bill Mollison
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! -- Peter Cundall
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. -- Nancy Mitford
I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked. -- Marta McDowell
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Charles Edward Jefferson
With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it. -- George H. Brimhall
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it. -- Henry David Thoreau
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting. -- Carol Deppe
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 Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans. -- Guy Wetmore Carryl
I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year. -- Mary McGrory
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals. -- Margaret Atwood
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. -- Wayne Winterrowd
You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes. -- Pearl Cleage
In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea -- Lindley Karstens
The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing... -- Hazel Hawke
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see. -- Janet Macunovich
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost. -- Roger Swain

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