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 for me what I should have done with my own hands.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Title: Gardening for Dummies
Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (February 15, 1999) ISBN: 0764551302 Book Description
Gardening is one of the most popular, least exclusive hobbies of all. Everybody can garden. Gardening is good for the body; an hour or two of daily yardwork provides just the right kind of light exercise we all need.