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" 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.

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" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

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

Barbra Streisand

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Gertrude Jekyll

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

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

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

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

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

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

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

Rabindranath Tagore

" I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. "

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

Hillary Clinton

" Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" 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. "

" Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. "

" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "

" 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. "

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

Physical Activity

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

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

Steven Cojocaru

" Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" 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

" 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. "

" The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. "

" Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. "