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" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "
John Harrison
Build
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
Emily Oster
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" When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. "
Ramakrishna
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" I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. "
Phyllis Theroux
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" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "
Jillian Michaels
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" I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go. "
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" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "
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Practice
" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "
Walt Disney
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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. "
Gertrude Jekyll
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Happiness
" 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. "
Jane Pauley
Work
People
Moment
" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "
George Eliot
Trees
Gardening
Plant
" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "
Jennifer Saunders
Relax
Gardening
Home
" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "
Nicholas Culpeper
Greatest
Flowers
Gardening
" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "
Blake Shelton
Like
Things
Love
" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "
Dogen
Love
Flower
Weed
" I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. "
Steve Zahn
Just
You
Family
" A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. "
Gertrude Jekyll
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Trust
Teacher
" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "
Alexander Smith
Human Heart
Human
Gardening
" I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. "
Steven Cojocaru
Fashion
Like
People
" 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. "
Penelope Keith
Treat
Think
Gardening
" I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. "
Tom Hodgkinson
Gate
Day
I Am
" 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. "
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You
World
Work
" 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. "
J. M. Roberts
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" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "
Hillary Clinton
Gardening
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Time
" Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Flower
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" 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. "
Mary Berry
Love
Think
Time
" A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. "
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Bee
Gardening
Harvest
" 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. "
Ina Garten
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Me
Gardening
" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "
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