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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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"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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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
Honesty

"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
Character

"Everything is sweetened by risk."
Risk

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
Genius

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
Gardening

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
Forgiveness

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Love

"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
Death

"Trees are your best antiques."
Nature

"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking."
Life
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