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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart

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

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin

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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

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I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. – Sean Bean

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

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