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I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Theroux

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We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. – Phyllis Theroux

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We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. “It must be up there somewhere on the horizon,” we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet. – William Bryant Logan, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth

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I doe hold it, in the Royall ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally Things of Beautie, may in then in Season. – Francis Bacon

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Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Laying out grounds… may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting…. it is to assist Nature in moving the affections… the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature… – William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont, 1805 October 17th [Author trivia:

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