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Penelope Keith on gardening
Author: Penelope Keith“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.” -Penelope Keith
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Phyllis Theroux on gardening
Author: Phyllis Theroux“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.” -Phyllis Theroux
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Margaret Atwood on gardening
Author: Margaret Atwood“Gardening is not a rational act.” -Margaret Atwood
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Martha Smith on gardening
Author: Martha Smith“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.” -Martha Smith
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Alexander Smith on gardening
Author: Alexander Smith“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.” -Alexander Smith
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Marcelene Cox on gardening
Author: Marcelene Cox“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.” -Marcelene Cox
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May Sarton on gardening
Author: May Sarton“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” -May Sarton
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Liberty Hyde Bailey on gardening
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Luther Burbank on gardening
Author: Luther Burbank“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” -Luther Burbank
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Thomas Moore on gardening
Author: Thomas Moore“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.” -Thomas Moore
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Martin Heidegger on gardening
Author: Martin Heidegger“To dwell is to garden.” -Martin Heidegger
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George Cadbury on gardening
Author: George Cadbury“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.” -George Cadbury
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B. C. Forbes on gardening
Author: B. C. Forbes“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” -B. C. Forbes
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Roy Rogers on gardening
Author: Roy Rogers“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?” -Roy Rogers
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Zora Neale Hurston on gardening
Author: Zora Neale Hurston“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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Roberto Burle Marx on gardening
Author: Roberto Burle Marx“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” -Roberto Burle Marx
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Eric Morecambe on gardening
Author: Eric Morecambe“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.” -Eric Morecambe
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Oscar de la Renta on gardening
Author: Oscar de la Renta“Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” -Oscar de la Renta
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William Cowper on gardening
Author: William Cowper“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.” -William Cowper
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D. Elton Trueblood on gardening
Author: D. Elton Trueblood“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” -D. Elton Trueblood
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David Hobson on gardening
Author: David Hobson“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” -David Hobson
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Gertrude Jekyll on gardening
Author: Gertrude Jekyll“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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Francis Bacon on gardening
Author: Francis Bacon“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” -Francis Bacon
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Rudyard Kipling on gardening
Author: Rudyard Kipling“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” -Rudyard Kipling
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George Eliot on gardening
Author: George Eliot“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” -George Eliot