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" It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. "

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" You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "

" Flowers are happy things. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. "

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

Hillary Clinton

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

" The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. "

" Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. "

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. "

Robert Smithson

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

" The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. "

" A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. "

" Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. "

" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "

Barbra Streisand

" Use plants to bring life. "

" 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. "

" Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. "

" Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. "

" I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. "

Phyllis Theroux

" Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. "

" But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. "

" I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. "

" 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

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

Gertrude Jekyll

" 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. "

" A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. "

" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "

" 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. "

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "