| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Liberty Hyde Bailey | 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. | 101 |
| Lykke Li | The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. | 101 |
| Alfred Austin | 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. | 101 |
| Douglas Wilson | Use plants to bring life. | 101 |
| Georges Bernanos | Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. | 101 |
| Luther Burbank | Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. | 101 |
| William Kent | Garden as though you will live forever. | 101 |
| Gates McFadden | 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. | 101 |
| Gertrude Jekyll | A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. | 101 |
| Roberto Burle Marx | 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. | 101 |
| Suzy Bogguss | I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. | 101 |
| C. Z. Guest | I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. | 101 |
| Denholm Elliott | The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon. | 101 |
| George Cadbury | 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. | 101 |
| Tina Charles | Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. | 101 |
| Caecilius Statius | He plants trees to benefit another generation.  | 101 |
| Robert Bridges | I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. | 101 |
| Dennis Basso | I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. | 101 |
| Martha Smith | I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. | 101 |
| J. Carter Brown | 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. | 101 |
| J. M. Roberts | 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. | 101 |
| Juliet Mills | My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. | 101 |
| Sigmund Freud | Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. | 102 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. | 102 |
| Alice Walker | In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. | 102 |
| B. C. Forbes | It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. | 102 |
| Dogen | A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. | 102 |
| Michael Pollan | A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. | 102 |
| Alfred Austin | Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. | 102 |
| Carolyn Murphy | I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. | 102 |
| Clive Anderson | Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. | 102 |
| D. Elton Trueblood | A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. | 102 |
| Eric Morecambe | 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. | 102 |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? | 102 |
| Gary Miller | 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. | 102 |
| Kage Baker | A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. | 102 |
| Lillie Langtry | The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. | 102 |
| Charlotte Smith | The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. | 102 |
| Emanuel Steward | 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. | 102 |
| Gertrude Jekyll | The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. | 102 |
| Paige Butcher | Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. | 102 |
| Robert Fortune | 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. | 102 |
| Phyllis Theroux | I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. | 102 |
| Tom Irwin | Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. | 102 |
| Billy Williams | I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. | 102 |
| John Harrison | If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. | 102 |
| Susan Hampshire | My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. | 102 |
| Michael Fish | I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. | 102 |
| Rudyard Kipling | Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. | 103 |
| Bootsy Collins | You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. | 103 |
| Peter Zumthor | 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. | 103 |
| Sean Bean | I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. | 103 |
| William Kent | All gardening is landscape painting. | 103 |
| Penelope Keith | I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. | 103 |
| Peter Mayle | 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. | 103 |
| Gertrude Jekyll | The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. | 103 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. | 103 |
| Robert Fortune | One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. | 103 |
| Brea Grant | I'm really into gardening. | 103 |
| Jennifer Saunders | At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. | 103 |
| James Douglas | It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. | 103 |
| Carolus Linnaeus | If a tree dies, plant another in its place. | 103 |
| Jean Ingelow | Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. | 103 |
| Beau Bridges | I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. | 104 |
| Dogen | Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. | 104 |
| William Cowper | Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. | 104 |
| May Sarton | Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. | 104 |
| Luis Barragan | A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. | 104 |
| Nicholas Culpeper | The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. | 104 |
| Penelope Keith | Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. | 104 |
| Lee Hall | In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. | 104 |
| Alice Sebold | I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. | 104 |
| Marcelene Cox | Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. | 104 |
| Jeremy Northam | The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. | 104 |
| George Eliot | It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. | 105 |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. | 105 |
| Alfred Austin | There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. | 105 |
| Doug Larson | A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. | 105 |
| Luis Barragan | I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. | 105 |
| Amanda Donohoe | 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. | 105 |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon | A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. | 105 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. | 105 |
| Steve Zahn | I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. | 105 |
| William Wordsworth | The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. | 106 |
| Hayley Mills | I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. | 106 |
| Thomas Moore | 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. | 106 |
| Doris Day | Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. | 106 |
| John O'Donohue | The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. | 106 |
| Russell Smith | I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. | 106 |
| W. H. Davies | The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. | 106 |
| Jacqueline Bisset | I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. | 106 |
| Margaret Atwood | In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. | 107 |
| Ken Kesey | There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. | 107 |
| Pablo Neruda | You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. | 107 |
| Emily Oster | There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. | 107 |
| Emma Tennant | I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. | 107 |
| Alexander Smith | How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. | 108 |
| Barbra Streisand | I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. | 108 |
| Charles Dudley Warner | What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. | 108 |
| May Sarton | 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. | 108 |
| Eve Best | I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. | 108 |
| Emma Tennant | Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. | 108 |
| A. A. Milne | Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. | 109 |
| Nick Cave | I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. | 109 |
| Emilia Fox | 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. | 109 |
| Hilarie Burton | Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. | 109 |
| Miranda Richardson | I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. | 109 |
| Ross Gay | There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. | 109 |
| Douglas Adams | Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? | 110 |
| Helen Mirren | I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. | 110 |
| Oscar de la Renta | Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. | 110 |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | A weed is but an unloved flower. | 111 |
| Dixie Lee Ray | Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. | 111 |
| Robert Irwin | Gardening always has been an art, essentially. | 111 |
| Ina Garten | My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. | 112 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. | 112 |
| Ramakrishna | When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. | 112 |
| Luther Burbank | The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. | 112 |
| Simon Baker | I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. | 112 |
| Steven Cojocaru | I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. | 112 |
| William Blake | To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. | 113 |
| Blake Shelton | I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. | 113 |
| Martin Heidegger | To dwell is to garden. | 113 |
| P. G. Wodehouse | Flowers are happy things. | 113 |
| Roy Blount, Jr. | Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. | 113 |
| Robert Irwin | 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. | 113 |
| Daniel Webster | 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. | 114 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. | 114 |
| Adam Ant | I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. | 114 |
| Alfred de Vigny | 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? | 114 |
| Ken Thompson | 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. | 114 |
| Dorothy Malone | I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. | 114 |
| David Chang | Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. | 115 |
| Andrew Weil | 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. | 115 |
| Ralph Fiennes | Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. | 115 |
| Anne Lamott | 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. | 116 |
| Elton John | 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. | 116 |
| Shilpa Shetty | 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. | 116 |
| Walt Disney | I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. | 117 |
| Bill Watterson | If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. | 117 |
| Michael Pollan | The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. | 117 |
| Stephen Gardiner | The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. | 117 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. | 117 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. | 118 |
| Jane Pauley | 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. | 118 |
| D. H. Lawrence | Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. | 119 |
| Sitting Bull | Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! | 119 |
| J. B. Smoove | My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. | 119 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. | 120 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. | 120 |
| Robert Smithson | 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. | 120 |
| Diane von Furstenberg | 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. | 121 |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee | Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. | 122 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. | 123 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. | 124 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. | 125 |
| Jean Anouilh | Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. | 125 |
| Wendell Berry | We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? | 126 |
| Deborah Moggach | I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. | 126 |
| John Hurt | I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. | 203 |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. | 204 |
| Andrew Weil | 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. | 204 |
| Mike Krieger | Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? | 204 |
| Mary Berry | I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. | 205 |
| Elton John | I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. | 207 |
| Ken Livingstone | I do the gardening. | 208 |
| Alex Honnold | I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? | 211 |
| Joel Salatin | 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. | 211 |
| Andrew Weil | 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. | 211 |
| Andrew Weil | Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. | 212 |
| Helen Mirren | Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. | 215 |
| Margaret Atwood | Gardening is not a rational act. | 216 |
| Cory Gardner | Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. | 217 |
| Viggo Mortensen | 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. | 218 |
| Thomas Fuller | A good garden may have some weeds. | 219 |
| Mary Berry | Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. | 225 |
| Voltaire | 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. | 302 |
| Khalil Gibran | And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. | 303 |
| Gertrude Stein | A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. | 305 |
| Thomas Jefferson | No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. | 314 |
| Abraham Lincoln | I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. | 325 |
| Stella McCartney | Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. | 404 |
| Joseph Addison | I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. | 405 |
| Jillian Michaels | My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff. | 407 |
| Jillian Michaels | Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. | 408 |
| George Bernard Shaw | The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. | 418 |
| Christian Louboutin | If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening. | 419 |
| Francis Bacon | God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. | 424 |
| Michael Pollan | As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. | 517 |
| Hillary Clinton | Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. | 1103 |
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