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" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "

Barbra Streisand

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" In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

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

" 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

" When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. "

" My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. "

" The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. "

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

" 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. "

" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

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

Charles Dudley Warner

" 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

" I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living. "

Dries van Noten

" Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. "

" I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. "

" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "

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

" 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. "

" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "

Margaret Atwood

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

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. "

William Wordsworth