Patience Strong Quotes

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Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

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While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

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Much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

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I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

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Gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

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New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

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The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.

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September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.

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I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.

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If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

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It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

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Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God's masterpiece?

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In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

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This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

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