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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" 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. "

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

" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. "

" The earth laughs in flowers. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. "

Thomas Jefferson

" We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" 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. "

" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The reward of a thing well done is having done it. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" 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. "

" Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" Hitch your wagon to a star. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" Money often costs too much. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson