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" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "

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" Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? "

Alfred de Vigny

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. "

" Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. "

Steven Cojocaru

" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius

" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "

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

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

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

Hillary Clinton

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

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

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people. "

" 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. "

" There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. "

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

" 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. "

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

Barbra Streisand

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

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

Jennifer Saunders

" Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. "

Siddhartha Mukherjee

" 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