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Gardening is something you learn by doing - and by making mistakes, like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures

Carol Stocker

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.

Barbara Cheney

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

Karel Čapek

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

Janet Kilburn Phillips

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Oscar de la Renta

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

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

Unknown

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Henry David Thoreau

Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Phyllis McGinley

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments

Janet Kilburn Phillips

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow

Unknown

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life

Unknown

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.

Unknown

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule of gardening is to pay attention†to local conditions of weather and soil.

Carol Williams

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movement of water, or gardening -- still all is Beauty!

JOhn Muir

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Charles Dudley

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