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" Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. "

Zora Neale Hurston

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" I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. "

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" I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" 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? "

" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "

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" A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. "

" 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. "

" But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. "

" 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. "

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

Deborah Moggach

" 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. "

" It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" 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. "

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

Nicholas Culpeper

" 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. "

" Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

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

" If a tree dies, plant another in its place. "

Carolus Linnaeus

" What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. "

" If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "

" People can be slave-ships in shoes. "

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

" When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. "

Robert Smithson