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" 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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" 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. "
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" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "
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" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "
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" 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. "
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" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "
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" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "
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" A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. "
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" A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. "
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" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "
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" Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. "
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" Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. "
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" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "
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" Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. "
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" In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. "
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" One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. "
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" In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. "
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" Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? "
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" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "
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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. "
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" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "
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" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "
Paige Butcher
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" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "
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" My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. "
Susan Hampshire
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" 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. "
Peter Mayle
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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. "
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" 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. "
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