A garden needs two forms of sunshine: the kind that comes from the sun and the kind that comes from mouths with upturned corners.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The Pavlik yard has been bare for two summers and today it was not. She was out there by seven with a flat of marigolds, talking to them the whole time, calling one of them stubborn. For years I thought the talking was foolishness people did when no neighbor was watching, and I kept my distance from it the way you keep away from a dog that barks at nothing. But the beds she tends while chattering come up thicker than the ones along the fence she ignores, and I have watched both from the same branch for six seasons. A garden needs two forms of sunshine: the kind that comes from the sun and the kind that comes from mouths with upturned corners. I do not know whether the marigolds hear her or whether she simply stays longer where she is enjoying herself, and I am not sure the difference matters to the marigolds.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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- It is hard to look at the stars and worry about what people think of you.
- Seek your counsel in the night sky.
- You don't have to be a god to work miracles in a garden.
- What one can imagine, two can create.
- Every sunrise and sunset shows how breathtaking is the world’s beauty and how fleeting.
- I didn't notice how beautiful the world is until I did, and it changed everything.