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" 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. "

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" Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "

" Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them. "

" 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. "

" 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 could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. "

" I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science. "

" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "

" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "

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

" I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs. "

" Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut. "

" No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things. "

" My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery. "

" I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from. "

" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "

" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

" If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. "

" 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. "

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

" Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. "

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

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

" 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. "

" I love a good madeira cake. Nice and simple. The most important thing is that a cake is moist. Most people overcook cakes, which dries them out. "

" 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. "