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" My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. "

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Caecilius Statius

" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "

" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "

" Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? "

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

" 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. "

" Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. "

Oscar de la Renta

" Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. "

" Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. "

" 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. "

" You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world. "

" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "

Nicholas Culpeper

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

Steven Cojocaru

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

" Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. "

" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "

" A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place. "

" I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. "

" In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. "

" Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. "

" I'm really into gardening. "

" The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. "

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