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There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Gladys Taber

There's little risk in becoming overly proud of one's garden because by its very nature is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees.

JoAnn R. Barwick

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

Esther Meynell

I never apologize.
I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''

Maya Angelou

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

Alice Koller

Jane Addams is best known as the founder and, for its early history, the leader of Hull-House in Chicago, one of the most successful settlement houses. She also worked for women's rights and peace, and wrote several books on social ethics.

� Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about.

Anne Tyler

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf