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

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" Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. "

" Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. "

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. "

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

" It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. "

" I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. "

" 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. "

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

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "

Nicholas Culpeper

" In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. "

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

" I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "

" 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. "

" Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. "

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" Garden as though you will live forever. "

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

Rabindranath Tagore

" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "

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

" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

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" I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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