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" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

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" One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. "

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" The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. "

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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. "

" Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. "

Rudyard Kipling

" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

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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. "

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

" If a tree dies, plant another in its place. "

Carolus Linnaeus

" Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. "

" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "

" Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. "

Roy Blount, Jr.

" 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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" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "

Alexander Smith

" I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine. "

" One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? "

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" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

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" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "

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

" The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. "

" If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero