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Quote by Gertrude Jekyll
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watch

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll

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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. – Gertrude Jekyll

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respect
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Gertrude Jekyll
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What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. – Gertrude Jekyll

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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji

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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that werent really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. – Ken Thompson

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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality. – Adam Ant

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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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