“Plants bestow many things upon us, but the first must be wonder.” ~ David Domoney
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However big or small your garden is, if you allow nature to touch your spirit, gardening will bring returns of peace, satisfaction, and well-being for as long as you continue to wander the garden path. ~ Norman Hansen #gardendc #gardenquote #MondayThoughts
“We all are nature’s best hope.” ~ Doug Tallamy
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“We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality.” ~ Wangari Maathai
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"I think we should fight back against this caustic language. Instead of calling lush landscapes ‘overgrown,’ how about we call barren lawns ‘undergrown’?” ~ Nancy Lawson, Humane Gardener
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“But it’s gardening that’s needed here. And that isn’t learned in a day. Gardening, that’s what this place needs.“ ~ Agatha Christie - “A Murder is Announced”
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"If your neighbors don’t think you’re a little crazy, you need to up your gardening game.” ~ Carol Michel

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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
- Aldo Leopold 
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“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum... as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” - Michael Pollan

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"The growing of plants is a complex site-specific science where all the facts are not true in all situations." ~ Janet Draper #gardendc #gardenquote #MondayThoughts