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The Gardener Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
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Published: Feb 27, 2019
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Gardening
The earth turns. The pages fall from the calendar. And the first amusing garden book arrives.
This one is a host/hostess gift for the passionate planter in your life. It’s “The Gardener Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom. Assembled by Nina Pick, who has been collecting quotes since she was 4, it’s a pocket-sized anthology: 150 pages of deep thoughts and witty comments about gardening. [To buy the hardcover from Amazon, click here. For the Kindle edition, click here.]
Some samples…
Beverly Nichols: “The flowers in my garden are in their present places because they have personally informed me, in the clearest possible tones, that this is where they wish to be.”
John Muir: “Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
Michael Pollan:, “Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have great deal in common.”: …
Elizabeth Lawrence: “Gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening are all one — no one can garden alone.”
Mirabel Osler: Gardening is the one occupation where “if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”
And this…“As long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
