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" My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. "

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

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" As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. "

" Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. "

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

" My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. "

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

" 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. "

" If a tree dies, plant another in its place. "

Carolus Linnaeus

" 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. "

" Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. "

" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "

Charlotte Smith

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

" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "

Margaret Atwood

" You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. "

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. "

" 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

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

Georges Bernanos

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

" I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. "

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

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

" I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. "

" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "

Alexander Smith

" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" Use plants to bring life. "

" Flowers are happy things. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

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

" I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. "