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Gardening is a
way of becoming grounded in your life. Cultivating the soil
also cultivates the soul.
Let
us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece
of it; they measure their success in life by their ability
to buy it. It is alike the passion of the parvenu and the
pride of the aristocrat. Broad acres are a patent of nobility;
and no man but feels more, of a man in the world if he have
a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it
is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that
is a very handsome property. And there is a great pleasure
in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The
man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something
for the good of the World. He belongs to the producers. It
is a pleasure to eat of the fruit of one's toil, if it be
nothing more than a head of lettuce or an ear of corn. - Charles
Dudley Warner, Summer in a Garden (1870)
Whether you grow
a vegetable garden for your kitchen
use or cultivate a flower garden
for the enjoyment of its beauty, or even if you work to develop
a formal, aesthetic garden and grounds
based upon some historical precedent, you will find satisfaction
in the soil and summer sunshine of Vanderbilt Country Estates
in central Washington State.
The satisfaction
of a garden does not depend on the area, nor, happily, on
the cost or rarity of the plants. It depends on the temper
of the person. One must first seek to love plants and nature,
and then to cultivate the happy peace of mind that is satisfied
with little. - L.H. Bailey, Manual of Gardening (Second
Edition)
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