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" A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. "

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" I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. "

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

" Use plants to bring life. "

" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

" The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. "

" All gardening is landscape painting. "

" I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. "

" Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. "

" There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware. "

" I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. "

" Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. "

" 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. "

" We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? "

" As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. "

" 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. "

" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "

" The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. "

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. "

" Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. "

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

Hillary Clinton

" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "

" You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. "

" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "

Alexander Smith

" 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. "

" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "