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" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

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" I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. "

" Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! "

" A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. "

Thomas Jefferson

" My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. "

" I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. "

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "

Hillary Clinton

" There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. "

" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius

" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

" I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things. "

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

" I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. "

Phyllis Theroux

" Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. "

" I'm really into gardening. "

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "

" I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. "

" The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. "

D. Elton Trueblood

" You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "

" From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. "

" Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. "

D. Elton Trueblood

" A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "

" I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. "

Jamaica Kincaid

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "