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1. "Earth laughs in flowers." RALPH WALDO EMERSON
2. "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." WALT WHITMAN
3. "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth...and no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener." THOMAS JEFFERSON
4. My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus." OGDEN NASH
5. "When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do what I should have done with my own hands." RALPH WALDO EMERSON
6. When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower,when it opened up a whole new world...as if a window had been opened to let in the sun. PRINCESS GRACE OF MONACO
7. He who plants a garden, plants happiness. CHINESE PROVERB
8. The work of a garden bears visible fruits - in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. PAT BROWN
The Flowers - Robert Louis Stevenson
