Gardeners Quotes

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Everything is mended by the soil.”
― Andrew Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener

“A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.”
― W.S. Merwin, What Is a Garden?

“Going out to the garden is to go on a holiday; when you travel amongst the flowers, your body touches heaven and your mind tastes the secrets of ataraxia!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.”
― Andrew Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener

“It is the garden dseigner's job to hide the vulgar and the common as far as the eye can see and include only the excellent and splendid.”
― Andrew Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener

“A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, ‘I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.’ Don’t you think that’s what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.”
― Craig Froman, Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World

“The sisters were all gifted gardeners so Sorrel wasn't terribly worried about her beloved flowers. Patience's herbs were in fine form, Nettie's fruits and vegetables were well on their way, and now Sorrel's blooms would have the best start they could without her capable hands to see them into June.”
― Ellen Herrick, The Forbidden Garden

“Criticize me all you wish,” he returned coolly, “but remember that you come to me because of the very actions you denounce. Now, do you want to hear more, or are you going to stand there and pass judgment on me all day?”
― Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis: On the Tides of Destiny

“Writers are gardeners. Words are their blooms.”
― Sarah Colliver

“Gardeners know too much zucchini will rot on the vine. You give some away because you can’t possibly eat everything you’ve grown. The same is true with knowledge and accomplishment”
― Ahriana Platten, Ph.D

“A Garden Epitaph by Stewart Stafford

From a verdant birth,
Two roses entwined together,
A union withered from the earth,
Root quest in envenomed weather.

Green fingers pruned with ill will,
Each barb taken to wounded hearts,
Cut natures freed of earthly swill,
Two crimson blooms, beyond scars.

Master gardener, just hear me,
If you see devotion, leave it be,
In silent witness, wonders see,
Lest you hasten obsequies.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We are a part of nature yet we have been given the best job—Gardeners—though we have forgotten to teach the new generations how precious this is. Taking care of the Earth is important because it gives us a better, healthier and longer life here.”
― Reena Doss, The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end