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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

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Patience Strong
Age: 83 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 4
Died: 1990
Died: August 28
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....the ancient ritual of the earth ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.
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gardening is something more than a pastime it is a religion.
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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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Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.
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In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.
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Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.
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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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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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In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
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Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.
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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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