Absorbing Quote by Patience Strong

“I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.”

Patience Strong

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In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

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New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

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Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

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Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

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gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

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Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

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in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

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