Carry on Gardening - Monty Don introduces a site with advice about easier gardening. Includes tools, ideas exchange and how others have adapted their gardens.
Horticulture for All - The Federation to Promote Horticulture for Disabled People introduces their association and gives advice and links.
Thrive - The national horticultural charity empowering disadvantaged, disabled and older people through gardening and horticulture. Runs a number of garden projects, and an expanding regional network.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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-- Carol Burnett I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Gardens and Gardening
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Gardens and Gardening If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Gardens and Gardening
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Gardens and Gardening Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Gardens and Gardening
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Gardens and Gardening This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Gardens and Gardening
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Rory Bremner Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Gardens and Gardening It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Gardens and Gardening
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something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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-- Carl Zwanzig If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gardens and Gardening
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Gardens and Gardening Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gardens and Gardening
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Gardens and Gardening Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Gardens and Gardening
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Gardens and Gardening Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Gardens and Gardening
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Gardens and Gardening Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Gardens and Gardening
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gardens and Gardening During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Gardens and Gardening
