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" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "

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" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. "

" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

" But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. "

" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "

" Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. "

" Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. "

" I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. "

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" 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. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without 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. "

" What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? "

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

William Wordsworth

" I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. "

" The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. "

" 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

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

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

" There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. "

" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

" We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. "

" Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. "

" Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. "

" The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "

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

Gertrude Jekyll

" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "

" Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. "

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

" 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. "