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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. – Leonardo da Vinci

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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. – Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

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In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. – Sam Llewelyn

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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

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