A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow

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. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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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. – Andrew Weil

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Use plants to bring life. – Douglas Wilson

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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. – Alexander Smith

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