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The Golden Laughter Of Sunflowers
When they have deeply quaffed from the brimming cups of dew, you can hear their golden laughter all the garden through.
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A Garden Of Aesthetic Intentions
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant.
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The Fruit Derived From Labor
What plant we in this apple-tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs to load the May-wind's restless wings.
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The Loveliest Flower In The World
Brave little fellows in crimsons and yellows, coming while breezes of April are cold,
winter can't freeze you.
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The Joys Of A Summer Morning
The daisy's bloom on the meadow's breast, the wandering bee and his ceaseless quest of the tempting sweets.
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There Is A Tenderness About A Garden
It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle.
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All The Flowers Of The Tomorrows
We owned a garden on a hill, we planted rose and daffodil, flowers that English poets sing, and hoped for glory in the Spring.
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To Own A Bit Of Ground
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life — this is the commonest delight.
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To Daffodils
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see you haste away so soon; as yet the early-rising sun
has not attain'd his noon.
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Trees Exhale For Us
Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.
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The Messenger
There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.
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The Feat Of Gardening
The vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green.
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