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" I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. "

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" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "

" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "

" Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

" Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. "

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

William Wordsworth

" I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. "

Jacqueline Bisset

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

" I'm really into gardening. "

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

" To dwell is to garden. "

Martin Heidegger

" I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. "

Steven Cojocaru

" Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. "

" I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. "

" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "

" All gardening is landscape painting. "

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

" Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. "

" 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. "

" There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. "