“For gardeners, this is the season of lists and callow hopefulness; hundreds of thousands of bewitched readers are poring over their catalogues, making lists for their seed and plant orders, and dreaming their dreams.”
Katharine S. White
more infosource: “A Romp in the Catalogues,” March 1, 1958 in Onward and Upward in the Garden (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 3.
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category: garden, list, seed, spring
medium: Magazine article
“Ordering seeds is my reward for finishing the income-tax figures.”
May Sarton
more infosource: Journal of a Solitude (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973), 84.
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category: garden, reward, seed, taxes
medium: Journal
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
Ernest Hemingway
more infosource: A Moveable Feast (New York: Scribner, 2009), restored edition, 86.
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category: humor, joke, philosophy, school of life, seed, soil
medium: memoir
“I was a tiny child—really tiny—and I loved tiny things. Seeds are a really powerful tiny thing.”
Ken Greene
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