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

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful....Abram L. Urban

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans....Marcelene Cox

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green....Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
....Rudyard Kipling 

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