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People. . . have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

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Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. . . . Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

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To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Essentials, Garden, Let, Optimism

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

Carelessness, Character, Failure, Failures, Ignorance, Stop

Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.

Away, Congregation, Fire, Home, Rose

I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

Aquamarines, Blue, Color, Flower, Lazuli

September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.

Autumn, Country, Evening, Good Luck, Smell
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