“Plants bestow many things upon us, but the first must be wonder.” ~ David Domoney
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However big or small your garden is, if you allow nature to touch your spirit, gardening will bring returns of peace, satisfaction, and well-being for as long as you continue to wander the garden path. ~ Norman Hansen #gardendc #gardenquote #MondayThoughts

“We all are nature’s best hope.” ~ Doug Tallamy
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“We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality.” ~ Wangari Maathai
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"I think we should fight back against this caustic language. Instead of calling lush landscapes ‘overgrown,’ how about we call barren lawns ‘undergrown’?” ~ Nancy Lawson, Humane Gardener
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“But it’s gardening that’s needed here. And that isn’t learned in a day. Gardening, that’s what this place needs.“ ~ Agatha Christie - “A Murder is Announced”
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"If your neighbors don’t think you’re a little crazy, you need to up your gardening game.” ~ Carol Michel

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
- Aldo Leopold 
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“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum... as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” - Michael Pollan

"The growing of plants is a complex site-specific science where all the facts are not true in all situations." ~ Janet Draper #gardendc #gardenquote #MondayThoughts

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while." ~ Willa Cather
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“We have some spectacular trees here, a legacy of so many others who cared for the space before we did.”
~ Ethan Kauffman
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“Lean into creating something out there, make it special for the season, to enhance all of these beautiful little things that are happening that we don't get in the summertime.” ~ Marianne Willburn
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“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.” ~ William P. Bryant

"Gardening as a practice should be something that helps us cultivate empathy." ~ Maddie Hoagland-Hanson
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