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" The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. "

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

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "

" A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. "

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

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

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

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" 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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" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

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

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" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "

" 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 like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. "

" A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. "

" 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 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. "

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" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

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

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