Sara Bonnett Stein quotes
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“It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.”
-- Sara Bonnett SteinSource : Sara Bonnett Stein (1995). “Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.”
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“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.”
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“A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.”
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Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.
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