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" The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. "

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" Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven't been priorities in America: it's been about money. You see, in the countries that fought for time, they cook more often; they have less obesity. There are real benefits to having time. "

" I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day... And it's a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys. "

" I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. "

" 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. "

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

Oscar de la Renta

" To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen. "

" 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. "

" I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. "

Miranda Richardson

" My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. "

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

" The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. "

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Georges Bernanos

" At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. "

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

" Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. "

" The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. "

" Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Charlotte Smith

" Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "

" Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love? "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way. "

" 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. "

" I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. "

" 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. "

" This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. "