If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June … - Ruth Stout

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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who. ' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Ruth Stout

If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

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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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Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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Working in the garden. . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

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

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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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