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Your job as a gardener is to try to keep things running smoothly for the plants and animals
that live in or visit your yard, whatever the weather decides to do. Ruth Shaw Ernst
There is not spot of ground, however arid, bare, or ugly, that cannot be tamed. Gertrude Jekyll
The only thing different about having a green thumb is that you don't get discouraged by failure.
When something doesn't work, you try again. Beth Weidner
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied. H. E. Bates
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. Richard Briers
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. Henri Frederic Amiel
Gardening is an art which is learned by practice, experience, and sensible advice. Jules Oravetz, Sr.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. This was said about literature, but it really fits gardening better. Henry Mitchell
The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns,
the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that. V. Sackville-West
I think there are as many kinds of gardening as of poetry. Joseph Addison
The lesson I have throughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others,
is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. Gertrude Jekyll
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet
Eventually, a gardener becomes a philosopher. Barbara Dodge Borland
A garden is a link to the passing seasons. Sheryl London
I hate to be reminded of the passage of time, and in a garden of flowers
one cannot escape from it. E. V. Lucas
Things seem to move very slowly in a garden. But nothing ever remains the same. Jamie Jobb
Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle--a seed waiting to sprout,
a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. Barbara Winkler
I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me. Andre Gide
I am in love with the green earth. Charles Lamb
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. Charlemagne
The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. Goethe
Pruning hurts. Pruning helps you grow. Emilie Barnes

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