Sara Bonnett Stein Quotes

• A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Weed, Garden, Gardening

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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.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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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 Stein

  Friendship, Responsibility, Community

  Sara Bonnett Stein (1995). “Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Weed, Roots, Feet

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