Sunday Dinner: Gardening

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“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it,

and understand it in a very real sense.

‘Green fingers’ are a fact,

and a mystery only to the unpracticed.

But green fingers are the extensions

of a verdant heart.”

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Russell Page

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“The green thumb is equable in the face of nature’s uncertainties;

he moves among her mysteries

without feeling the need for control or explanations

or once-and-for-all solutions.

To garden well is to be happy

amid the babble of the objective world,

untroubled by its refusal

to be reduced by our ideas of it,

its indomitable rankness.”

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Michael Pollan

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“It is easier to tell a person what life is not,

rather than to tell them what it is.

A child understands weeds that grow

from lack of attention, in a garden.

However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers

that one gardener calls weeds,

and another considers beautiful ground cover.”

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Shannon L. Alder

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2018

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“It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth,

to feel at one’s fingertips

the possibilities of the new season.”

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Kate Morton

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With love, to the JCCWMGA Class of 2018

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