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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
Alice Walker / Author
Gardening
Fruit
Waiting
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton / Poet
Life
Nature
Patience
Gardening
Circles
Garden
Grace
Back
Down
Forces
Help
Instrument
Slow
Sets
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
Gates Mcfadden / Actress
Architecture
Gardening
Hairdresser
Hairstyles
Obsessive
Pretty
Whether
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Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.
Jim Nollman / Musical Artist
Love
Gardening
Rocks
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If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.
Evagrius Ponticus / Writer
Gardening
Men
Prayer
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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 / Botanist
Gardening
Good
Ambition
Attention
Effort
Garden
Good Intentions
Labor
Patient
Plants Growing
Thrive
Because
Grow
Someone
Them
Fulfill
Intentions
Merely
Plants
Requires
Satisfy
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
Andy Goldsworthy / Photographer
Art
Car
Gardening
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But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury /
Gardening
Family Life
Garden
Healthy
Surroundings
Life Family Opportunity
Cultivate
Each Man
Large
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Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Gardening
Hands
What Matters
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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.
Peter Mayle / Author
Gardening
Air
Earth
Garden
Heat
Night
Smell
Summer
Coming
Cooler
Short
Walk
Meet
Taking
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Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.
Eleanor Perenyi / Author
Gardening
Faces
Temptation
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.
J. B. Smoove / Actor
Gardening
House
Wife
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Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
Philippe Kahn / Innovator
Gardening
Play
Trying
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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.
Daniel Webster / Former United States Senator
Art
Gardening
Men
Civilization
Cultivation
Earth
Farmers
Forget
Founders
Important
Labor
Most
Arts
Begins
Follow
Let Us
Other
The Most Important
Therefore
Tillage
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
Alfred De Vigny / Poet
Gardening
Air
Charming
Country
Do You Know
France
Garden
Heaven
Streams
Wide
Spot
Plains
Purest
Watered
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Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.
Margery Fish / Writer
Gardening
Baby
Important
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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
Ken Thompson / Computer Designer
Jobs
Gardening
Academic
Reading
Relevant
Increasingly
Scientific
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I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.
Lauren Bowles / Actress
Gardening
Creative
Writing
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The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Gardening
People
Want
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History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.
Janet Macunovich / Author
Gardening
Mystery
Weather
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Gardening
Facts
Garden
Paint
Range
Walking
Wide
Writing
Anything Else
Interests
More Than Anything
Wide Range
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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.
Thomas Moore / Writer
Gardening
Breeze
Bud
Delicious
Dies
Jasmine
Secret
Sleep
Sunlight
All Day
Away
Buds
Day
Plants
Themselves
Timid
Wake
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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 / Medical Doctor
Gardening
Home
Activity
Exercise
Improvement
Occurs
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
Jack Kornfield / Author
Inspirational
Gardening
Spiritual
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson / Artist
Gardening
Finished
Finished Work
Garden
Representation
Sculpture
Social
Absorb
Ideal
Longer
Placed
Thus
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I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
Amanda Donohoe / Film Actress
Gardening
Dirt
Fingernails
Garden
Mess
Movie Star
Stars
Thinking
Walks
Love Always People
Slightly
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Nature
Strength
Gardening
Citizens
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Gardening
Flower
Flowering
Growth
Inclination
Thrown
Tree
Vigorous
Years
Freely
Peach
Plants
Plum
Trees
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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
Gardening
Genius
Reading
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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 /
Gardening
Crunch
Garden
Giving
Photograph
Smell
Time Experience Will
Japanese
Underfoot
Walked
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A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.
Thomas Traherne / Poet
Religion
Gardening
World
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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx / Landscape Architect
Gardening
Aesthetic
Artist
Color
Disappearance
Doomed
Garden
Landscape
Ordinary
Plant
Unusual
Volume
Also
Only
Rare
Itself
Complex
Intentions
Shape
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Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.
David E. Cooper / Author
Gardening
Humility
Practice
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You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'
Ricky Gervais / Comedian
Gardening
Funny Inspirational
World
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Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
Audrey Hepburn / Actress
Gardening
Beautiful
People
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It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.
John Hay / Former United States Secretary Of State
Religion
Gardening
Say Anything
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The beauty of moving naturally, i.e. walking and gardening, is they're low impact. You're less likely to fall down and break a hip. Setting up your life so you're nudged into general physical activity every day is a strategy for your entire life from age 10 to 100.
Dan Buettner / Author
Gardening
Fall
Moving
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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 / Medical Doctor
Gardening
Beautiful
Garden
Microcosm
Overwhelming
Passion
Resignation
Selfish
Merely
Neither
Proposed
Strike
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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
Vita Sackville-West / Author
Gardening
Luxury
Two
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Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.
Margaret Fuller / Journalist
Art
Gardening
Doe
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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 / Fashion Designer
Gardening
Clarity
Compare
Important
Pruning
Vision
Need
Nothing
Lot
Then
Thing
After
Confident
Happen
Important Thing
Put
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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 / Journalist
Gardening
Helping
Helping People
Hindsight
Insight
Interpersonal
Nbc
News
People
Recognition
Report
Interests
Spark
Telling
Viewer
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Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.
Allen Lacy / Author
Gardening
Healthy
People
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
Peter Zumthor / Architect
Gardening
Believe
Columns
Garden
Imagine
Intimacy
Long
Long Time
Setting
Simple
Turns
Wall
Time Great Believe
Architectural
Seen
Buildings
Stay
Every Time
Place
Magical
Sheltered
Surrounded
Walls
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The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Gardening
Clay
Doomed
Earth
Handful
Hands
Holes
Nails
Over It
Rocks
Roots
Seeds
Soil
Ugly
Full
Cover
Dig
Polluted
Poppy
Throw
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One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.
Mary Norris /
Jobs
Gardening
Singing
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Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Gardening
Ideas
Momentum
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I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?
Eleanor Perenyi / Author
Gardening
Flower
Years
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