"Ruth Stout" was an American author best known for her "No-Work" gardening books and techniques.

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Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

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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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Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

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