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

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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore

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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. – Michael Fish

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