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This book takes readers on a journey through the author's transformative summer spent in a garden, exploring themes of nature, self-reflection, and the passage of time.
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“Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.”
“A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.”
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value”
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
“It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.”