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" 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. "

Jamaica Kincaid

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" 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. "

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" A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. "

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" Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. "

" The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. "

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" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "

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

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" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "

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

" Use plants to bring life. "

" The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. "

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

" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "

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" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "

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" One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. "

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" Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. "

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" 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. "

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" I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. "

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" I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. "

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" People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "