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If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.