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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.