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11/17/09

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. –Samuel Butler

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?  Not just eat it, but taste it?  You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.  ~Astrid Alauda

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt.  That's why I love vegetables,
you know what they're about!  ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.  ~Joan Gussow

Worries go down better with soup.  ~Jewish Proverb

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill
except for learning how to grow in rows.
-Doug Larson

As long as one has a garden,
one has a future,
and as long as one has a future,
one is alive.
~ Irish Saying



To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
~Anon