Quote by May Sarton
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs,

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

Other quotes by May Sarton

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. – May Sarton

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Christmas
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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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relationship
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When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. – Author Unknown

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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must not write outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), In the Garden, published posthumously

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God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. – Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval (God loved the birds and invented trees.

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The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. – Jeff Cox

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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. – John F. Kennedy

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Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. – Felix Adler

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When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole. – Reese Hoffa

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. – George Bernard Shaw

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