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• The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
• Summer makes a silence after spring.
• The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to…
• Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…
• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower…
• Flowers really do intoxicate me.
• I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all…
• Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
• To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
• It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
• I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is…
• Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather…

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