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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "

Charlotte Smith

" You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "

" 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. "

" My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. "

Susan Hampshire

" Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

" In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. "

" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "

Hillary Clinton

" 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. "

" The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

J. Carter Brown

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

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

" 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? "

" There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. "

Physical Activity

" 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. "

" The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. "

" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. "

" There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. "

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

Georges Bernanos

" 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. "

" Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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