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  • How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. -- Alexander Smith
  • 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
  • I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. -- Elton John
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. -- Emilia Fox
  • From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. -- Joel Salatin
  • 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
  • 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
  • It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. -- Robert Irwin
  • I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. -- Elton John
  • 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
  • I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. -- Shilpa Shetty
  • 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
  • The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. -- Larry Dossey
  • Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. -- Russell Page
  • It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. -- W. C. Sellar
  • We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. -- Evelyn Underhill
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