You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or … - Ruth Stout

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Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Ruth Stout

You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who think you are a monster if you don't 'love children,' however obnoxious the children may be? Well, I found out that many people who love flowers look down on those who don't.

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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you. . . . In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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Working in the garden. . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

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I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

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Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

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