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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

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" The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon. "

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

" My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. "

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

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" A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. "

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" I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. "

" 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 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. "

" A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. "

" 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. "

" Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. "

" I'm really into gardening. "

" 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. "

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

" I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. "

" Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. "

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" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "

" Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. "

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "

" Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "