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Quote by Phyllis Theroux
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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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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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. – Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)

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Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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