"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden."

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Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

Ruth Stout

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“A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.”
“Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together”
“My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.”

Source : "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".
“Art is not a career - it's a life.”
“Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .”
“The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.”
“I've probably seen more naked people than anyone in the world.”

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