More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, … - Gertrude Jekyll

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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L. A. , there are people who have never tried Indian food. . . they've never even tasted it!

Gertrude Jekyll

More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

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If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.

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The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

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