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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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

Joseph Addison

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" 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. "

" Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. "

Diane von Furstenberg

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" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Care

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" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. "

Emma Tennant

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" I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots. "

" Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. "

" 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. "

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

" I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. "

" To dwell is to garden. "

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

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

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

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

Lillie Langtry

Pure

Gardening

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

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

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

" Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. "

" The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting. "

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

" I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. "

John Hurt

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

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

Gardening

" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "

" I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. "

" Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. "

" Flowers are happy things. "