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" Garden as though you will live forever. "

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" My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my 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. "

" 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

" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "

" 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. "

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

Phyllis Theroux

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

" Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. "

" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "

Margaret Atwood

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

Hillary Clinton

" 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. "

" The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. "

" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "

Charlotte Smith

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

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

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

" Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" 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. "

" Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. "

" 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! "

" Use plants to bring life. "

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

" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "

" Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "

" Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" 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. "

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

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