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" 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

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" Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. "

" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "

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" 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. "

" All gardening is landscape painting. "

" To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. "

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

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" I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots. "

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

" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "

" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "

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

" I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. "

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" My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. "

" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "

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" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

" Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. "

" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "

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

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" 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. "

" I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. "

" My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable. "

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" 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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" If a tree dies, plant another in its place. "

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" I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot. "

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