Quote by Andrew Weil
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an

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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Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. – Andrew Weil

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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil

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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. – Andrew Weil

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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. – Alfred Austin

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I do the gardening. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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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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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. – Jean Anouilh

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