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" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "

" 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. "

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

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" I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. "

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

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" I've a grand memory for forgetting. "

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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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" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "

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" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? "

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" 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. "

" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "

" When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. "

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" In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. "

" My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. "

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

" I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

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