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"Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no
blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth.
Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently,
unboastfullly, taking its time."
- Ruth Stout |
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"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." |
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"I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me
more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are." |
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"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener." |
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"We feel there is never a time to leave the landscape unchanged for it is
change that keeps us enthusiastic about the next season." |
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| "The appreciative lover of
beauty gets so much more out of life.... Beauty helps us to get by. It
is a terrific pain killer. Beauty can fill a void left by a lost love,
sad childhood or bad investment. A walk in the park always cheers you
up.... Never be afraid to receive from Nature what Nature wants to
give back to you
– your sense of
wonder." - Thomas Hobbs in Shocking Beauty |
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| "The greatest gains I've seen in
people's lives is when they've accomplished something good for the earth." - Dennis Maloney Corrections Chief for Deschutes County, OR as quoted in Oregonian article, June 20, 1999 "The sun at home warms better than
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"Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure." - Edward Conze |
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"...Thus the shade gardener begins as a grower of plants and becomes the
cultivator of a certain phase of mind: that of retreat and solitude, of the need
to drop out, to disappear...as all of us must, I think, hanker to do now and
again. For some of us, surely, the serenity of shade gardening—as the
counterpart of sun gardening, with its festive mood—is just what the inner
doctor orders." - George Schenk in The Complete Shade Gardener |
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"Walking around an early spring garden— going nowhere." - Kyoshi |
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"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!" - Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future, 1985 |
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"This has long been my fondest desire: to own a piece of earth of modest but ample size and there by my house to set a garden and in it to be blessed with fresh flowing water and an overhanging patch of the noble forest." – Horace (Italian poet, 65-8 B.C.), as quoted on an inscription in a Snohomish, Washington garden |
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"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee." - Job 12:8 |
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace
will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares drop
off like autumn leaves." - John Muir |
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people out of a hundred settle for whatever they get, wishing
they had more all the way from the cradle to the casket, never understanding
that they could actually have all they wanted." – Bob Proctor |
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"May you always find three welcomes: In a garden during summer, At a fireside during winter, And whatever the day or season, in the kind eyes of a friend." - old Gaelic prayer |
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