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“Mindfulness is not the path of chasing.
It is the path of beautification.
When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads,
and the bees come.”
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Amit Ray
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“We need to return to harmony with Nature
and with each other,
to become what humans were destined to be,
builders of gardens and Shires,
hobbits (if you will),
not Masters over creatures great and small.”
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Steve Bivans
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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2016
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“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’
and sitting in the shade.”
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Rudyard Kipling
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“It is not reasonable that art should win
the place of honor over our great and powerful
mother Nature. We have so overloaded
the beauty and richness of her works
by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.”
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Michel de Montaigne
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Forest Garden 