Gardening Quotes
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I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.
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Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life.
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Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.
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Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
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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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Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.
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I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
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Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.
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Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
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The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
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I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
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I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
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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.
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Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
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Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.
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Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
