Thalassa Cruso Quotes

• One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

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  Garden, People, Yards

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• El sentido del olfato puede ser extraordinariamente evocador, trayendo a la memoria imágenes tan nítidas como fotografías de escenas que habían abandonado la mente consciente.

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  Memories, Smell, Mind

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

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  Spring, Years, Normal

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

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  Wise, Garden, People

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• Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

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  Wise, Nature, Memories

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

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  Garden, Progress, Development

  Thalassa Cruso (1972). “MAKING THINGS GROW”

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• Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

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  Years, Support, Bird

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

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  Sports, Garden, Cooking

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• I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.

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  Life, Moving, Eye

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.

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  Flower, Fall, Winter

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

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  Country, Spring, Frustration

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