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" Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. "

Emma Tennant

Gardening

I Am

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" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

" Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. "

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

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

" 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. "

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

" My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point. "

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

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

" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

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

" 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! "

" No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. "

" One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. "

" I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. "

" To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. "

" A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. "

" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "

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

" Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. "

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

" 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. "

" Use plants to bring life. "

" What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. "

Charles Dudley Warner

Needs

Gardening

Man

" I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. "

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

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

" 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. "