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

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" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" 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. "

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" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. "

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. "

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

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" By indignities men come to dignities. "

" Rebellions of the belly are the worst. "

" Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "

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" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "

" The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. "

" Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. "

" Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. "

" 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. "

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

" I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. "

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" I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. "