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

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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. – Charles Wagner

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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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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln

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