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On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything tha

On every stem, on every leaf,… and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty

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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My little bit of earth in the front garden is one of the places that I find my bearings. The rhythm of my day begins with a cup of coffee and a little bit of weeding or dreaming. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

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Weed it and reap. – Gardening Saying

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…I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10th October 1842

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesnt… you work out something. Its yours. You dont have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. – LeRoy Neiman

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All men have need of the gods. – Homer

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