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“Whoever said do something right the first time and you won't have to do it again never weeded a garden.” -- unknown
“A garden is where the soul feels at home.” -- unknown
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back with a hinge on it.” -- Charles Dudley Warner
“If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.” -- Chinese Proverb
“Though an old man I am but a young gardener.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“When heaven falls to Earth, it becomes a Garden.” -- Stouffer
“A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.” -- unknown
“A beautiful garden is a work of heart.” -- unknown
“An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.”
“As is the gardener, so is the garden.” -- unknown
“Born to garden - forced to work.” -- unknown
“Earth laughs in flowers.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers feed the soul.” -- unknown
“Gardening....just another day at the plant.” -- unknown
“Gardening: A leisure-time activity involving lots of time and little leisure.” -- unknown
“Friends are like flowers in the garden of life.” -- unknown
“Gardeners know the best dirt.”
“Gardening: A labor that begins with daybreak and ends with back break.”
“A beautiful garden is your reward for doing God's yard work.”
“Surviving is not enough, said the butterfly, One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -- Hans Christian Anderson
“Seed + Sun + Water = Weeds”
“The only thing I grow in my garden is tired.”
“The shortest way to heaven is through a garden gate.”
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
“To plant seeds of happiness, just smile.”
“Who plants a seed beneath the sod, and waits to see, believes in God.”
“God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.”
“A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” -- Doug Larson
“Compost happens!.”
“Gardener's Rule of thumb. Weed'em and Reap.”
“Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.” -- Henry Mitchell
“Gardening requires lots of water ? most of it in the form of perspiration.” -- Lou Erickson
“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
“One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.” -- Dan Bennett
“All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.” -- Helen Hayes
“To have complete satisfaction from flowers you must have time to spend with them. There must be rapport. I talk to them and they talk to me.” -- Princess Grace of Monaco
“The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.” -- Phyllis McGinley
“An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.” -- Leslie Hall
“The land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.” -- Henry Ford
“I've had enough of gardening...I'm just about ready to throw in the trowel.”
“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams as beautiful.” -- Abram l. Urban
“Flowers and plants are silent presences; They nourish every sense except the ear.” -- May Sarton
“People who don't know how to weed shouldn't do it. People who know how to weed are gardeners.” -- Author unknown
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of imagination. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners.” -- Mrs C.W. Earle
“It is only when you start to garden-probably after fifty- that you realize something important happens every day.” -- Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
“When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.” -- Ken Druse
“I believe that gardens themselves are very healing. To be surrounded by the exquisite beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul.” -- Author unknown
“Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.” -- Thomas Jefferson
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -- Greek proverb
“Earth laughs in flower.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.”
“A garden is a friend you can visit any time.”
“You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.”
“Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.” -- The Koran
