"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."

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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."

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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

William Cowper, English Poet

Gardening, Garden

"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."

Roger Andrew Taylor, English Musician

Gardening, Garden

"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."

J. M. Roberts, British Historian

Gardening, Anarchy, Culture, Drama

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

Gardening, Man, Needs

"Gardening is not a rational act."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Gardening, Act

"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

Gardening, Garden, Law, Public, World

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

Scott Reed, American Political Consultant

Gardening, Garden, Trials

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Gardening, Garden

"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."

Edward Fitzgerald, English Poet

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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."

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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."

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"When in doubt, use brute force."

"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."

"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."

"I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it."

"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."