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

Gertrude Jekyll

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" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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" I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. "

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" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "

" The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. "

" The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. "

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

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

" I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. "

" 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. "

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

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" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "

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" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

" Flowers are happy things. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. "

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

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

" What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. "

Gertrude Jekyll

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

" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. "

" I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "

" 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've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

" From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. "

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