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" Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. "

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Rudyard Kipling

" I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine. "

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

" I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story. "

" 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. "

" I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound. "

" A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life. "

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

Physical Activity

" I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera. "

" 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. "

" Surrender is working with what happens. "

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "

" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "

" To dwell is to garden. "

Martin Heidegger

" There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. "

Roberto Burle Marx

" When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. "

Robert Smithson

" It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit. "

" Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy. "

" I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith. "

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

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "

" 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. "

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

" So many great singers we know have come from the church. "