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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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Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. – Victoria Glendinning

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Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first. – Gardening Saying

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History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

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Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. – Gardening Saying

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