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

Charlotte Smith

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. "

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" 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 think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. "

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

" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "

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