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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. "
Emily Oster
Gardening
Risk
Lot
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" I am extremely devoted to Amazon Prime - which offers speedier free deliveries, free movie streaming and other benefits for an annual fee - but I don't think it is great for groceries. "
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" A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. "
Gertrude Jekyll
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" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "
Jillian Michaels
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" There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. "
Ross Gay
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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. "
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
Alfred Austin
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" I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. "
Jacqueline Bisset
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Time
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" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "
May Sarton
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" I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more. "
Emily Oster
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Time
Men
" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "
Alice Sebold
Myself
Lose
Gardening
" As people do a task, they improve at it. "
Emily Oster
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People
Improve
" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
Khalil Gibran
Earth
Gardening
Play
" Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. "
Penelope Keith
Treat
Think
Gardening
" No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. "
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People
" One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing. "
Emily Oster
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Big
Engage
" How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour. "
Emily Oster
Salary
Time
Work
" The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. "
Luther Burbank
Plant
Apart
Gardening
" 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. "
Andrew Weil
Passion
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" Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence. "
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" If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest. "
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" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "
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Gardening
Time
Plants
" 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. "
Marcelene Cox
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" Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. "
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Quit
Money
" To dwell is to garden. "
Martin Heidegger
Dwell
Garden
Gardening
" I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. "
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Like
I Am
Gardening
" The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you. "
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You
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" I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. "
Miranda Richardson
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