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> [If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/if-heartache-sounds-exaggerated-then-surely-you-have-never-gone-to/)

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## More by Ruth Stout

> [You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/you-know-how-some-people-seem-to-think-that-their-love-for-classical/)

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> [Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/only-in-the-winter-in-the-country-can-you-have-longer-quiet-stretches/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/the-unmulched-garden-looks-to-me-like-some-naked-thing-which-for-one/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/if-heartache-sounds-exaggerated-then-surely-you-have-never-gone-to/)

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> [Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/working-in-the-garden-gives-me-a-profound-feeling-of-inner-peace/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/working-in-the-garden-gives-me-something-beyond-the-enjoyment-of-the/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/the-central-paradox-and-challenge-of-marriage-is-that-we-have-to-make/)

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> [Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/farmers-are-philosophical-they-have-learned-that-it-is-less-wearing/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/the-bliss-that-comes-from-ignorance-should-seldom-be-encouraged-for/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/i-love-spring-anywhere-but-if-i-could-choose-i-would-always-greet-it/)

[Ruth Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-stout/)

> [There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you… In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/there-is-a-privacy-about-it-which-no-other-season-gives-you-in-spring/)

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> [It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/it-s-a-fair-sized-job-to-write-a-book-that-people-can-be-bothered/)

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> [Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/why-do-people-who-like-to-get-up-early-look-with-disdain-on-those-who/)

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> [To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/to-the-memory-of-those-faithful-brown-slave-men-of-the-plantations/)

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> [Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-stout/farmers-are-philosophical-they-have-learned-that-it-is-less-wearing-2/)

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