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" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius

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

Rudyard Kipling

" I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. "

" 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. "

" I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. "

" I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. "

Deborah Moggach

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. "

" 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. "

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

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" Fear created the first gods in the world. "

Caecilius Statius

" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "

" It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. "

" A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

" The whole world is a man's birthplace. "

Caecilius Statius

" I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. "

" 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

" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. "

" I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. "

Jacqueline Bisset

" Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. "

" 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. "