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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. — Alfred Austin

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. — Stanley Crawford

The garden is a kind of sanctuary. — John Berger

For fun and for life, through life's changes, look to be inspired, to stay gardening. — Chris Eirschele

The market is the best garden. — George Herbert

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbes

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams

Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin. — Vigen Guroian

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

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. — Ken Thompson

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — Allen Lacy

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills

Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

They suggested E-meters, Gestalt, eating only high-mineral foods that had been planted during a full moon. — Emma Cline

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... — Vita Sackville-West

As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul. — Jessica Coupe

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. — Vita Sackville-West

Use plants to bring life. — Douglas Wilson

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

In the spring, a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of gardening. — Richard Martinus

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes. — Sarah Orne Jewett

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired. — Maeve Binchy

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little. — Anna Bartlett Warner

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. — Mirabel Osler

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. — Kelseyleigh Reber

May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading. — Mary Wortley Montagu

He plants trees to benefit another generation. — Caecilius Statius

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts

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

Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean! — Mitchell Beazley

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. — Emo Philips

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley

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 love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? — Eva Mendes

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. — Kate Morton

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. — Vincent Van Gogh

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. — Ina Garten

By the end of summer, this trolley will be bursting with spuds. Like nature's own supermarket. — Lili Wilkinson

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. — Alice Walker

It's the same thing when I'm gardening or reading. It's just me and what I'm doing, or the world I'm reading, and nothing else. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The sovereign individual cannot escape to any degree the rules and practices of gardening. — Tom P. S. Angier

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb. — Mae West

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman's noose. — Fennel Hudson

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall. — Michael Lee West

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. — Suzy Bogguss

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

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. — Walt Disney

A garden is made of hope. — W.S. Merwin

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. — Marcelene Cox

It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend. — Tasha Tudor

ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

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. — Billy Williams

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. — Oscar De La Renta

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. — Miranda Richardson

The non-hybrids/heirlooms I grew equaled or out-yielded the hybrids in general, with far superior flavors and variety. — Craig Lehoullier

There is a tale ... It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. — Cameron Dokey

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes

A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death — Tiffany Baker

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant. — Barbara Damrosch

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. — Fennel Hudson

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. — Gertrude Jekyll

And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...) — Wilton Barnhardt

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us. — F.T. McKinstry

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't. — Kim Wilde

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. — S. Kelley Harrell

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? — Mike Krieger

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. — Texas Bix Bender

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening. — Arthur Smith

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

Gardening always has been an art, essentially. — Robert Irwin

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. — Helen Mirren

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind. — Allen Lacy

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. — May Sarton

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. — Luis Barragan

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther

If you want to have a balanced garden, feed the soil and build the ecosystem. — Cindy Conner

I tend the flowers of my mind
Watering our memories as they bloom — Richard L. Ratliff

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. — Claude Monet

There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul. — Barbara Mertz

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. — Thomas Berry

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. — Nick Cave

We may owe more than we are aware of to the witch. — D.J. Jacobs

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. — Martha Smith

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there. — Lars Von Trier

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

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