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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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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
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"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
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"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
Gardening
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
Peace
"We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw."
Beauty
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
Ethics
"Novelty is a new kind of loneliness."
Solitude
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
Hope
"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
Discovery
"The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future."
Environment
"This is the man who will be my grandfather-the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time."
Legacy
"The inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him,and until I wake I believeI will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died."
Grief
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