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Gardening is to me an escape from artificiality into a sane 
world of order and balance. It gives me a feeling of security, 
and satisfies a primitive need for the assurance of unchanging 
fundamentals. In my garden I find never-shifting values. I find 
the eternal laws of the universe in tangible form. 

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Gardening makes me humble. For in my garden I work with 
a force far stronger than I. When I realize that flowers absorb 
color and perfume from within a dimension beyond:my under- 
standing, my belief in God is strengthened. Gardening satisfies 
my hunger for spiritual beauty and creation. 
Raising vegetables gives me physical comfort. When they 
grow beneath my hand, and gradually turn into fuel for the 
body, I am content in the knowledge that the larder need never 
be empty. In the winter, from the jars of vegetables on my 
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If ideals seem futile, if friends disappoint me, if my heart is 
sad, or my mind in turmoil, if my eyes are dull and my body 
sluggish, I can go into my garden and find faith, tranquility, a 
comfort, and physical exercise, all of which give me a feeling of 
well-being. — Jessie Morris, in Better Homes and Gardens, 
March 1941. 
PUYALLUP, 
WASH., 
U.S.A. 
Pudor’s Delphiniums, painted from life by Winifred Walker of London, England. 

