Gardening Quotes
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
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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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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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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
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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 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 is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
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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 have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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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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Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
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I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
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People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
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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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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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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 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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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 imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
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Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
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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.
