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.’ ”

“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?”

“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.”