"It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are."
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"In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in."
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"The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties."
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"The source of nature is spirit."
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"Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite."
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"The market is the best garden."
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"I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!"
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"For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science."
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"Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need."
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"It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life."
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"Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't."
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"The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable."
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"Gardening is the instrument of grace."
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"gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary."
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