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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

—Audrey Hepburn

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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

—Robert Brault

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Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

—Elizabeth Murray

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Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.

—Edwin Curran

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

—May Sarton

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A weed is a plant that has mastered every skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

—Doug Larson

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Weeds are nature’s graffiti.

—Janice Maeditere

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In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

—Sam Llewelyn

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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

—May Sarton

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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

—Michael Pollan

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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

—Chinese proverb

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Poem: Planting Peas

Poem: Gardening

Poem: The Garden

Poem: “Garden Vision”

Poem: The Garden Buddha

Poem: The Garden

Poem: The Garden

Poem: Sheltered Garden

Poem: the garden of delight

Poem: The Garden Body: A Florilegium

Poem: The Gardens of the Body

Poem: Her Garden

Poem: Hello, the Roses

Poem: Tea Garden

Poem: The Gardener to His God

Poem: November Garden: An Elegy

Poem: The Garden

Poem: His Wife

Poem: Fern

Poem: The Garden

Poem: Aware

Poem: The Garden of Proserpine

Planting our poetry garden

Cultivating Delight

The Light Eaters; interview

The Japanese Garden

A Sound Garden; listen

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