84 private quotes tagged gardening

“If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.” — John Harrison

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“I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.” — Dorothy Malone

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“Garden as though you will live forever.” — William Kent

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“I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.” — Michael Fish

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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?” — Francis Cabot Lowell

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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” — Alfred Austin

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“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.” — Elton John

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“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.” — Jane Pauley

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“I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.” — Andrew Weil

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“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.” — Andrew Weil

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“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.” — Andrew Weil

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“I do the gardening.” — Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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“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.” — Adam Ant

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“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

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“I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.” — Steven Cojocaru

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“I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.” — Simon Baker

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“Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.” — Clive Anderson

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“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.” — Jeremy Northam

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“Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.” — Gary Miller

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“Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.” — Roy Blount, Jr.

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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.” — Sean Bean

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“My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.” — Emanuel Steward

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“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.” — Juliet Mills

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“Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.” — J. M. Roberts

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“I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.” — Luis Barragan

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