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" We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? "
Wendell Berry
Gardening
Time
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" 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. "
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" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "
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" The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. "
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" If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess. "
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" 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? "
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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. "
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" The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. "
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" Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. "
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" I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. "
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" As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. "
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" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "
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" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "
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" Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. "
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" You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. "
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" This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. "
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" Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. "
Hilarie Burton
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" The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. "
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" Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. "
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" 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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