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• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive…
• The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
• A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid…
• The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy…
• The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a…
• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants…
• Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
• One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in…
• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll…
• Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is;…

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