#gardener

You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time. ("In The Garden") ↗

— Rosalie Parker

#gardening #gardens #music

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carre

#journalist

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#catch #decorating #gardener #home #i

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

#agents #believe #better #better world #care

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener. ↗

— Jared Harris

#grant #graves #hugh #like #look

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

#clothes #coming #day #gardener #got

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#be grateful #blossom #charming #gardeners #grateful

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#before #born #deal #figured #gardeners

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

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

#best #best way #energy #gardener #i