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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil

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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore

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Someones sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Les Brown

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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. – Michael Fish

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon

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