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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
Children
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
Character
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
Gardening
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
Conversation
"When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating."
Job
"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
Children
"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
Being
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
Children
"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
Woman
"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
Blame
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