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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

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! – May Sarton

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Fear
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May Sarton
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best — out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. – May Sarton

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Privacy
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May Sarton
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Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. – C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden

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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. – Evelyn Underhill, Letters

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And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening. – John Evelyn

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No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. – Hugh Johnson

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Gardens

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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. – Ben Okri

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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each others houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job. – Beau Bridges

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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one mans approval. – Helen Rowland

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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.” – Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

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