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“There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.”

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Janet Macunovich is an author born in 1955. Her works cover a range of topics including nature, health, and lifestyle. more

“The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.”

People Years Made Stills Love Is Garden Seasons Moved Cycles Passages Dirt

Author:Allen Lacy

“Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.”

Care Plant Consistent Heroic Moderates Intervention Occasional

Book:Gardening 101

Source: Gardening 101

“Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?”

Source: The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics

“Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.”

Wells Kind Joy Garden Tools Chosen

Book:Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

Source: Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

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