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There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Gladys Taber

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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
Impermanence
Immortality
Garden
Dying
Death
Every
Kind
Time

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the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
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April is a promise of what's to come.
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Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
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There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
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Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
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Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
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November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
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The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
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The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
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I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
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Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
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Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed it has its own spring.
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Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
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We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
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Happiness is a thing of now.
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Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
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My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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