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The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ~ Phyllis McGinley



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Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country. ~ Menander



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Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~ Marcelene Cox



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“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.” ~Phil Angell, Director Corporate Communications Monsanto



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“It is tempting to deny the existence of evil since denying it removes the need to fight it” ~ Alexis Carrel



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“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” ~ Lewis Grizzard



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Awake, thou wintry earth – Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”



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If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? ~Ymber Delecto



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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. ~  John Cage



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“Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.” ~ Geneticist, David Suzuki, giving the 2008 Commonwealth Lecture in London



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