"As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I."

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Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.92, Applewood Books

Celia Thaxter

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