Definition:
Hobby is an activity that one does at spare time for the sake of delight, pleasure and recreation.
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
-Lady Bird Johnson
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
-Author Unknown
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Though nothing can bring back the hour; of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
-William Wordsworth
Oh ! There are flowers all around;
looking very nice with birds chirping song,
Momentous, glorious the beautiful world;
Such a pretty one that paradise be found.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
-Gertrude Jekyll
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
-Phyllis McGinley
All gardeners know better than other gardeners.
-Chinese Proverb
When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.
-Ken Druse
Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... and with no limit on dosage.
-Author unknown
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
-W. E. Johns
Stamp Collecting
Much of the fun of stamp collecting is knowing from what countries stamps come, when they were printed, and what events they commemorate.
-DANIEL FOX, Arrowheads of the Central Great Plains
Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.
-RUSSELL W. BELK, Collecting in a Consumer Society
In their stamp collecting, boys ... played within the discourse of commerce and nationalism and learned its language, learning to put the rest of the world literally under their thumbs.
-LEAH DILWORTH, Acts of Possession
"The collecting of stamps brings untold millions of people of all nations into greater understandings of their world neighbours"
- Francis Cardinal Spellman of America while laying the foundation stone of Cardinal Spellman Museum at Weston on July 27, 1972.
"Consider the postage stamp, its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there"
- American humorist John Billings.
"The philatelist will tell you that stamps are educational, that they are valuable, that they are beautiful. This is only part of the truth. My notation is that the collection is a hedge, a comfort, a shelter into which the sorely beset mind can withdraw. It is orderly, it grows towards completion, it is something that can't be taken away from us"
- Clifton Fadiman in Any Number Can Play.
"All science is either Physics or stamp collecting."
- Erenst Rutherford physicist and Noble Laureate.
"What should I do? I think the best thing is to order a stamp with my face on it."
- Charles, Emperor of Austria 1882-1922 on learning of his accession to the throne.
Stamp Collecting dispels boredom, enlarges our vision, broadens our knowledge, makes us better citizens and in innumerable ways, enriches our lives"
- President Roosevelt
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-Josh Billings
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
- DAVE BARRY, Dave Barry's Bad Habits
We never lived in past but can see the history and great stories from stamps. Enlarges your knowledge and help in visualization.
-Muhammad Tahir Habib
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