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" Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. "

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" 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. "

" There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. "

" 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. "

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

" 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. "

" The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "

" If a tree dies, plant another in its place. "

Carolus Linnaeus

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

" 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

" The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. "

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

" Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. "

" I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "

Jennifer Saunders

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

" I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. "

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" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. "

" I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. "

" One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. "

" A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. "

" I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. "

" I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. "

" 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. "

" I'm really into gardening. "

" Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. "

" Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. "