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Gardening Quotes
"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
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"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"
69
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
41
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
32
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
26
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
26
"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
20
"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
19
"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"
18
"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."
16
"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
16
"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
15
"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
15
"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."
15
"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
15
"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."
14
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
14
"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
13
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
13
"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."
13
"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
13
"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
12
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
12
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
12
"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."
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