Top 50 Gardener Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Gardener Quotes from famous people such as J. Maarten Troost, Mira Nair, Liza Koshy, Curtis Stone, George Balanchine, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea

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
I’m a self-taught landscape gardener; it’s a real passion of mine. It’s what I do in my spare time because trees don’t ask questions!
Mira Nair
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.
Liza Koshy
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
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine
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
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
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 love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
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.
Monty Don
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
I’m a gardener, and I love to plant.
Jill Biden
I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.
Pawan Kalyan
I’m not a gardener. I wish I was.
Kate Winslet
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
Ken Thompson
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.
Vic Reeves
If I hadn’t been an actor, I’d be a gardener.
Udo Kier
I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
Giles Coren
Chickweed is regarded by most gardeners as just that – a weed – but is excellent in sandwiches or salads.
Monty Don
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
If you don’t look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they’ll have you playing the gardener.
Jared Harris
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
I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.
Clive Anderson
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
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
You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
Alain Ducasse
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol’ peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Julie Andrews
Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it’s an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that’s a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.
Wong Kar-wai
‘The Gardener’ is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
John Burnside
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
There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and

There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and there’s even been the cult of the celebrity chef and gardener, but there has never been a cult of the screenwriter. But I’m happy about that because what I crave – in a completely venal way – is creative opportunities, not recognition.
Anthony McCarten
I’m obsessed with not chucking away food. I’m lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroots, cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce. I’m trying to get into blanching it and freezing so I don’t have to buy veg over the winter, but then you need loads of freezers, and that’s not ideal.
Stella McCartney
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
It’s hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It’s hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.
Jordi Molla
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan DeCarlo
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.
Gwendoline Christie
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
For every gardener there is a minimum level of engagement that is needed to sustain and develop the relationship. There is no magic figure to this and it will vary from person to person and season to season, but it is there.
Monty Don
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.
Stanley A. McChrystal
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
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
Whatever has gone on in the week, ‘Gardeners’ World’ marks the end of it.
Zoe Ball
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
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners’ World addict again.
Ken Thompson
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
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
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 think optimism springs from nature. I’m a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.
Mira Nair
My parents were both writers – they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford – so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
Deborah Moggach