My garden has been my pleasure, and a daily recreation since the spring opened for planting… Every plant one tends he falls in love with, and gets the glad response for all his attentions and pains. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.” It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. The fennel self-seeds there is an abundance of cosmos out of nowhere…. A peony returns, alien pink shoots thrusting from bare soil. The gardener is not immune to attrition and loss, but is daily confronted by the ongoing good news of fecundity. Time becomes circular, not chronological minutes stretch into hours some actions don’t bear fruit for decades. “Gardening situates you in a different kind of time, the antithesis of the agitating present of social media. “I like gardening-it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.” “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.” “A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” “If you don’t have failure, you don’t why things are succeeding.” “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas.” “It’s amazing how many worries are lost while gardening.” Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.” “A garden is a silent, loyal friend and a great listener.” “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.” “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” “The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” “When the going gets tough, the tough get growing.” If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.” “When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. “The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.” “Housework is for people who don’t know how to garden.” “Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.” But it can buy plants, and that’s the same thing.” “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” “Gardening requires lots of water-most of it in the form of perspiration.” Want a Garden Superpower t-shirt? See them here. “You know you’re a gardener when you’re happy to devote three months of your life growing tomatoes to save $1.27.” “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” “All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” “Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.”
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