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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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My garden is my favorite teacher. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

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We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009

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When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. – Frank Swinnerton

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If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! – Valerie Clague

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