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" I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. "

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

" 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. "

" A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. "

" I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. "

" I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. "

" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

" A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. "

" I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. "

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

" Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. "

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. "

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

" Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. "

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. "

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

Phyllis Theroux

" I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. "

" From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. "

" I had had no art training. "

" 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 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

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" 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. "

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

" 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. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

" I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. "

" I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant. "