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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. -- Vicente Fox
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. -- Chuck Close
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. -- Robert Fortune
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know. -- Howard Finster
I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house. -- Patty Loveless
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. -- Donna Leon
I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space. -- John Burnside
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. -- Aldous Huxley
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need. -- Uma Thurman
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. -- Dan Buettner
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. -- Ben Stiller
My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years. -- Sara Canning
My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring. -- Kathleen Quinlan
My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill. -- Fergus Henderson
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. -- Voltaire
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
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. -- Paul Klee
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. -- Brian Eno
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
Garden work clears the mind. -- Joanne Harris
To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic. -- Louise Wilder
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. -- Frank Auerbach
When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden. -- Kevin Henkes
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. -- Pam Brown
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. -- Mavis Gallant
I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out. -- Kyle MacLachlan
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
When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds. -- Elizabeth Hurley
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. -- Samuel Johnson
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny. -- Claude Monet
This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch..., is a sacrament. -- Robert Michael Pyle
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. -- Germaine Greer

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