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

Margaret Atwood

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" Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. "

Stella McCartney

" I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. "

" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" 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

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "

" A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "

Jennifer Saunders

" I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. "

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

" Use plants to bring life. "

" If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. "

Margaret Atwood

" 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. "

" I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. "

Margaret Atwood

" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen. "

Margaret Atwood

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

" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. "

Deborah Moggach

" 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. "

" The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" 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 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. "

" Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. "

Margaret Atwood

" As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. "

Margaret Atwood

" I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. "

" Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! "

" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "

Hillary Clinton

" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

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