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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton

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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton

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No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. – May Sarton

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In search of my mothers garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

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Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling

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