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" 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. "

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" One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. "

" To dwell is to garden. "

Martin Heidegger

" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. "

" The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. "

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

" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

" 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. "

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

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" 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. "

" One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. "

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

" The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. "

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

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! "

" I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. "

" 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. "

" 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. "