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quotes[0] = "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Abraham Lincoln</i></div>";
quotes[1] = "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Walt Whitman</i></div>";
quotes[2] = "Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Dorothy Frances Gurney</i></div>";
quotes[3] = "But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Lewis Gantt</i></div>";
quotes[4] = "The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Vita Sackville-West</i></div>";
quotes[5] = "It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Edgar Allen Poe</i></div>";
quotes[6] = "What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven.<br /><div align='right'><i>- A.J. Balfour</i></div>";
quotes[7] = "A garden is a place arranged for promenades and at the same time for the recreation of the eyes. But it is also an accessory to the house, serving it as an accompaniment, an environment; and, within certain limits, it is simply another apartment, an annex of the house. Therefore, how can the art which built and adorn the dwelling be refused the right to interfere in this exterior house?.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Vitet</i></div>";
quotes[8] = "It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Jacqueline Heriteau</i></div>";
quotes[9] = "Good planting design does not follow a formula. At best, it allows you to experiment with nature and through nature to make an original statement. As in all of the arts, the best garden designers take risks. Only by taking risks can you come up with something exciting and original.<br /><div align='right'><i>- James Van Sweden</i></div>";
quotes[10] = "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.<br /><div align='right'><i>- Henry Miller</i></div>";
quotes[11] = "Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.<br /><div align='right'><i>- William Mason</i></div>";

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