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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. – Henry David Thoreau

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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty

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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 193

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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. – Spanish Proverb

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