gardeners Quotes

“The shepherd is slave to the sheep. A gardener is in thrall to his carrots.”

“Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare–crow to frighten the blackbirds.”

“But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!”

“He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.”

″ ‘If you are a gardener and find me,’ said the little bunny, ‘I will be a bird and fly away from you.’ ”

“One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven.”

“Your gardeners do not understand their business: but what can you expect of men whose fathers were cobblers and carpenters? How should they have learned to cultivate your garden?”