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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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