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" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

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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. "

" Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. "

" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "

" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "

" The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. "

" I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. "

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. "

" Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. "

" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

" The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. "

" Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. "

" The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. "

" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "

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" A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. "

" 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. "

" The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. "

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

Carolus Linnaeus

" One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? "

Francis Cabot Lowell

" Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. "

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

Alexander Smith

" 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. "

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

" Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? "

" When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. "

" The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" 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! "

" Your friend is your needs answered. "