There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you. . . . In spring, summer … - Ruth Stout

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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Ruth Stout

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.

Changing, Garden, Giving, Nothing, Profound, Unboastfully

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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The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

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