"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
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"My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!"
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"What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?"
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"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
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"In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms."
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"The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry."
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"Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job."
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"I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul."
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"Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood."
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"Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps."
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"LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us."
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"Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend."
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"Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream."
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"If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way"
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"The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky."
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"Nothing is worth more than this day."
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"One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden."
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"Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate."
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