The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. – John R. Whiting
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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
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I cant take myself too seriously. – Drew Barrymore
It isnt false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesnt mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. – Gyorgy Legeti
