The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. – John R. Whiting
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It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. – W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936
Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. – H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I dont know why anyone would want to be famous. I cant imagine what need that would fill. – Jessica Cutler
The parent knows instinctively that if theyre working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. – John Engler
Exhalation of moss, mycelium, black mould; wafted savor of a thousand earthly growths, damp, clinging, redolent; aroma of mighty roots, of invisible spawn and seed—all the vast stirring of the earth’s desire. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacifi