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By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 193

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