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Garden Quotes - Page 71

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

"The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering".

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.135, Univ. of Tennessee Press

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.30, Open Road Media

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

"Anglo‐Irish Vision" by avis Gallant, www.nytimes.com. January 15, 1978.

Gardening is all about optimism.

Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.56, Conari Press