"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"Gardening is not a rational act."
"The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown."
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
"The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession."
"Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself."
"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence."
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden."
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