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

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" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "

" 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. "

" Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. "

" The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" 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. "

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

Miranda Richardson

" I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. "

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

" In the country of pain we are each alone. "

" My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. "

Susan Hampshire

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

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" Flowers are happy things. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. "

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

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

Hillary Clinton

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

J. Carter Brown

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

" Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. "

Stella McCartney

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

Phyllis Theroux

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

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

" Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. "

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

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

" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius