Ruth Stout Quotes

#1. The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...

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#2. There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

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#3. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

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#4. It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

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

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#6. Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

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#7. Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

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#8. There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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#9. The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

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#10. When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

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#11. Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

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#12. The bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

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