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" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "

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" I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. "

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

" If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it? "

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

Rudyard Kipling

" I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living. "

Dries van Noten

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

" I do the gardening. "

Ken Livingstone

" Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. "

Siddhartha Mukherjee

" Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? "

Alfred de Vigny

" 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.

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

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" I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. "

" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

" 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? "

" You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. "

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Jennifer Saunders

" Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. "

" The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" 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. "

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

" My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. "

" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "

" To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Carolus Linnaeus

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

" I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. "