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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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Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. – C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden

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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. – Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

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Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

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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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