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Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. – Charles Dudley Warner

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. – Unknown

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. – Marceline Cox

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. – Lindley Karstens

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season. – Kate Morton

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas William Jerrold

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. – Unknown

It will never rain roses, when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot

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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. – William Blake

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

Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors. – Oscar dela Renta

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. – Bootsy Collins

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn

It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season. – Kate Morton

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion