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" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

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" A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" To dwell is to garden. "

Martin Heidegger

" 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. "

" Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. "

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

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

Phyllis Theroux

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course. "

" I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. "

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

" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

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

Charles Dudley Warner

" A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. "

" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "

" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. "

Miranda Richardson

" 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. "

" I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. "

" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

" A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "

Jennifer Saunders

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

" 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. "