John Evelyn Quotes

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

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

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

I'm really good at growing roses.

I am a gardener, I have a big green thumb, and I can take care of these plants really easily because they are all fake.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

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

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

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

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.