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May[1] = "A delicate fabric of bird song floats in the air, the smell of wet wild earth is everywhere. Oh, I must pass nothing by without loving it much, the raindrop try with my lips, the grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again the world on the first of May shining after the rain?"
Maya[1] = "- Sara Teasdale, May Day"
May[2] = "I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring.  Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?"
Maya[2] = "- Edward Giobbi"
May[3] = "Flowers bring to a liberall and gentlemanly minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse and all kindes of virtues."
Maya[3] = "- John Gerard"
May[4] = "Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.  But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.  Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them."
Maya[4] = "- Victoria Glendinning"
May[5] = "Yes, I will spend the livelong day with Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share my bread with birds whose homes are there; While cows lie down to eat, and sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep; while birds do sing with all their might, as though they felt the earth in flight."
Maya[5] = "- William Henry Davies, In May"
May[6] = "Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you." 
Maya[6] = "- Edward Payson Rod"
May[7] = "Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us."
Maya[7] = "- W.E.B. du Bois"
May[8] = "Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables."
Maya[8] = "- Henry Beard"
May[9] = "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
Maya[9] = "- American Indian saying"
May[10] = "I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it."
Maya[10] = "- Gerald Manley Hopkins"
May[11] = "One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve."
Maya[11] = "- Henry David Thoreau"
May[12] = "Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them."
Maya[12] = "- Chinese proverb"
May[13] = "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
Maya[13] = "- Kozuko Okakura"
May[14] = "I've read all the books but one only remains sacred: this volume of wonders, open always before my eyes."
Maya[14] = "- Kathleen Raine"
May[15] = "Weeds are us"
Maya[15] = "- Michael Pollan"
May[16] = "In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,  stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,  with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,  with every leaf a miracle ..."
Maya[16] = "- Walt Whitman"
May[17] = "In particular moments, in the dusk of a late May evening, when everything glows, when green seems greener than you've ever seen it before, and the roses you planted are beginning to flower, future tasks don't matter, neither do past worries - because you witness a perfect moment of soul-restoring beauty."
Maya[17] = "- Turning Earth"
May[18] = "In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
Maya[18] = "- Abram L. Urban"
May[19] = "Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine."
Maya[19] = "- William Feather"
May[20] = "O Lord, grant that in some way it may rain every day, say from about midnight until three o'clock in the morning, but, you see, it must be gentle and warm so that it can soak in; grant that at the same time it would not rain on campion, alyssum, heliaanthemum, lavender, and the others which you in your infinite wisdom know are drought loving plants - I will write their names on a paper if you like - and grant that the sun may shine the whole day long, but not everywhere (not for instance, on spiraea, or on gentian, plantain lily, and rhododendron), and not to much; that there may be plenty of dew and little wind, enough worms, no plant-lice and snails, no mildew, and that once a week thin liquid manure and guano may fall from heaven. Amen."
Maya[20] = "- Karel Capek, The Gardener's Year"
May[21] = "God made rainy days, so gardeners could get the housework done."
Maya[21] = "-  Author unknown"
May[22] = "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.  Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
Maya[22] = "- Edward Abbey"
May[23] = "Nothing is as interesting as weeding.  I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board." 
Maya[23] = "- Robert Louis Stevenson"
May[24] = "Comes the spring with its warmth and flowers delight, then the weeds poke out their ugly head, what a nightmarish site. I pull, I scream, they reappear. My husband says 'Didn't we just do this last year, dear?' My endless battle, it seems, I'm doomed not to win. Is shooting your weeds considered a sin?"
Maya[24] = "- Christine Blanksvard"
May[25] = "I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden."
Maya[25] = "- Ruth Stout"
May[26] = "Remember, it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery."
Maya[26] = "- Kiddushin 4:12"
May[27] = "Advice on dandelions: If you can't beat them, eat them."
Maya[27] = "- Dr. James Duke"
May[28] = "Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."
Maya[28] = "- Ikkyu Sojun"
May[29] = "Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you."
Maya[29] = "- W E Johns"
May[30] = "Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature."
Maya[30] = "- Susan Polis Shutz"
May[31] = "... the loveliest days of the year - those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled."
Maya[31] = "- Francis King"

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Jun[1] = "Mine is the time of foliage, when hills and valleys teem with buds and vines sweet scented, all clothed in glowing green. My nights are bright and starry, my days are long and clear and truly I'm the fairest of all months in the year." 
Juna[1] = "- Mary Fordham, June"
Jun[2] = " Innumerable as the stars of night, are stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun impearls on every leaf and every flower." 
Juna[2] = "- John Milton"
Jun[3] = "Earth's crammed with heaven,  And every common bush afire with God;  But only he who sees, takes off his shoes."
Juna[3] = "-  Elizabeth Barrett Browning"
Jun[4] = "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
Juna[4] = "- Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
Jun[5] = "I'm dirty, tired, sore, and my face is red; and, every damn weed in that garden is dead."
Juna[5] = "- Michael P. Garofalo"
Jun[6] = "The Earth Laughs in Flowers"
Juna[6] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Jun[7] = "The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden."
Juna[7] = "- Ray D. Everson"
Jun[8] = "Weeds multiply in direct proportion to your efforts to eliminate them."
Juna[8] = "- Michael P. Garofalo"
Jun[9] = "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
Juna[9] = "- Emma Goldman"
Jun[10] = "Left to themselves, weeds tend to go from there to everywhere."
Juna[10] = "- Michael P. Garofalo"
Jun[11] = "When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses."
Juna[11] = "- George Eliot"
Jun[12] = "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Juna[12] = "- A. A. Milne"
Jun[13] = "I have a garden of my own, but so with roses overgrown, and lilies, that you would it guess to be a little wilderness."
Juna[13] = "- Andrew Marvell"
Jun[14] = "It ain't no use to grumble and complain; It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain, why, rain's my choice."
Juna[14] = "- James Whitcomb Riley"
Jun[15] = "Native peoples have never forgotten that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land."
Juna[15] = "- Lynn Noel"
Jun[16] = "Pulling weeds can also clear the mind."
Juna[16] = "- Michael P. Garofalo"
Jun[17] = "What runs but never gets tired? Water"
Juna[17] = ""
Jun[18] = "Weeds are people's idea, not nature's."
Juna[18] = "- anonymous"
Jun[19] = "My garden is a balancing act between weeds and wonders. Though I started out as a frustrated perfectionist, over the years I've learned how to enjoy my garden rather than feel enslaved by it, thanks to a growing know-how and a change in mindset."
Juna[19] = "- Carol Stocker"
Jun[20] = "None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones."
Juna[20] = "- Forbes Watson"
Jun[21] = "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them"
Juna[21] = "- A. A. Milne"
Jun[22] = "There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings looking out on gardens and green things growing, the shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves - images of time and eternity - Silence in the garden and felt along the walls."
Juna[22] = "- A. L. Rowse"
Jun[23] = "I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice."
Juna[23] = "- Roland A Beowne"
Jun[24] = "FREE WEEDS - U PICK 'EM"
Juna[24] = ""
Jun[25] = "We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
Juna[25] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Jun[26] = "I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
Juna[26] = "- Edna St. Vincent Millay"
Jun[27] = "Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and 'green-robed senators of mighty woods' are clothed in their most elegant array."
Juna[27] = "- author unknown"
Jun[28] = "Yes, in the poor man's garden grow far more than herbs and flowers - kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, and joy for weary hours."
Juna[28] = "- author unknown"
Jun[29] = "Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved."
Juna[29] = "- Jack R. Harland"
Jun[30] = "What a pity flowers can utter no sound! - A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle, - oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!"
Juna[30] = "- Henry Ward Beecher"

Jul = new Array
Jula = new Array
Jul[1] = "Take time to smell the roses."
Jula[1] = ""
Jul[2] = "For Zen students, a weed is a treasure."
Jula[2] = "- Shunryu Suzuki"
Jul[3] = "On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphid, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part."
Jula[3] = "- Oliver Wendell Holmes"
Jul[4] = "How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, in the broad and fiery street, in the narrow lane, how beautiful is the rain!"
Jula[4] = "- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rain in Summer"
Jul[5] = "Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
Jula[5] = "- Langston Hughes,  April Rain Song"
Jul[6] = "To be surrounded by the exquisite beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul."
Jula[6] = "- author unknown"
Jul[7] = "One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."
Jula[7] = "- W. E. Johns"
Jul[8] = "One year to seed; seven to weed."
Jula[8] = ""
Jul[9] = "When a man has found all the rest of the world vanity, he retires into his garden."
Jula[9] = "- author unknown"
Jul[10] = "Flowers seem intended for a solace of ordinary humanity..."
Jula[10] = "- John Ruskin"
Jul[11] = "The golden rule of gardening is to pay attention to local conditions of weather and soil."
Jula[11] = "- Carol Williams"
Jul[12] = "Weather means more when you have a garden.  There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
Jula[12] = "- Marcelene Cox"
Jul[13] = "The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."
Jula[13] = "- Claude Monet"
Jul[14] = "Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us."
Jula[14] = "- Michael Pollan"
Jul[15] = "Early to bed, early to rise; Work like h*ll and fertilize."
Jula[15] = "- Emily Whaley"
Jul[16] = "Windchimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures...squirrels, fairies and angels."
Jula[16] = "- author unknown"
Jul[17] = "A flower touches everyone's heart."
Jula[17] = "- Georgia O'Keefe"
Jul[18] = "Weeds lengthen with the days."
Jula[18] = "- Issa"
Jul[19] = "Nature, at whose feet every one who does any gardening must sit and learn, settled the question ages and ages before mankind began to cultivate flowers, by creating the annual as the great filler-in of the vegetable world - the finishing touch to her handiwork."
Jula[19] = "- Benjamin Goodrich"
Jul[20] = "A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
Jula[20] = "- Thomas Cooper"
Jul[21] = "There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."
Jula[21] = "- Minnie Aumonier"
Jul[22] = "Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food."
Jula[22] = "- Henry Ward Beecher"
Jul[23] = "The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it."
Jula[23] = "- Chinese proverb"
Jul[24] = "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
Jula[24] = "- Joseph Joubert"
Jul[25] = "Gardening: a leisure-time activity involving lots of time and little leisure."
Jula[25] = "- author unknown"
Jul[26] = "A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of."
Jula[26] = "- T.H. Everett"
Jul[27] = "And if you voz to see my roziz  -  As is a boon to all men's noziz,  -  You'd fall upon your back and scream  -  'O Lawk!  O criky! it's a dream!'"
Jula[27] = "- Edward Lear"
Jul[28] = "Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can be either flowers or weeds."
Jula[28] = "- author unknown"
Jul[29] = "You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful."
Jula[29] = "- Montagu Don"
Jul[30] = "The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup."
Jula[30] = "- Helena Rutherford Ely"
Jul[31] = "May all of your weeds be wildflowers."
Jula[31] = "- author unknown"

Aug = new Array
Auga = new Array
Aug[1] = "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
Auga[1] = "- Abraham Lincoln"
Aug[2] = "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
Auga[2] = "- John Updike"
Aug[3] = "What a diversity of creative wanderers: Weeds. I enjoy their beauty and variety, and do nothing to reap their rewards. I neither hoe, nor plant, nor water, nor fertilize, nor prune ... and they come and go in lovely profusion as the seasons move."
Auga[3] = "- Mike Garofalo"
Aug[4] = "Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes.  All is a miracle."
Auga[4] = "- Thich Nhat Hanh"
Aug[5] = "Any garden demands as much of its maker as he has to give, but no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort put into it."
Auga[5] = "- Elizabeth Lawrence"
Aug[6] = "The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."
Auga[6] = "- author unknown"
Aug[7] = "The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Auga[7] = "- Hanna Rion"
Aug[8] = "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."
Auga[8] = " - Rachel Carson"
Aug[9] = "Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds."
Auga[9] = "- Carl von Linnaeus"
Aug[10] = "The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."
Auga[10] = "- Elizabeth Lawrence"
Aug[11] = "I do not scorn weeds.  As a matter of fact, there are some instances where they are necessary for the garden.  The question of propriety is decided by the dialogue between man and weed."
Auga[11] = "- Shimpei Kusano"
Aug[12] = "There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
Auga[12] = "- Janet Kilburn Phillips"
Aug[13] = "Flowers...have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its vigor."
Auga[13] = "- Henry Ward Beecher"
Aug[14] = "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
Auga[14] = "- Frank Lloyd Wright"
Aug[15] = "Most of us are too busy gardening to remember the pristine significance of the word 'garden' which comes to us from the Persian, meaning Paradise."
Auga[15] = "- author unknown"
Aug[16] = "Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
Auga[16] = "- Richard Brinsley Sheridan"
Aug[17] = "Joy is the natural way of humans as it is for all nature. Just look at flowers in bloom. Look at them joyfully, lovingly turned towards the sun."
Auga[17] = " - Robert Muller"
Aug[18] = "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
Auga[18] = "- Walt Whitman"
Aug[19] = "I am in love with this green Earth."
Auga[19] = "- Charles Lamb"
Aug[20] = "Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something  beautiful about ourselves."
Auga[20] = "- Jeff Cox"
Aug[21] = "My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."
Auga[21] = "- H. Fred Ale"
Aug[22] = "I think the Sweet Pea is a frivolous flower and leads a butterfly's life, it wanders anywhere, and clings to anything, and has not any definite aim or ideal."
Auga[22] = "- Helen Milman"
Aug[23] = "Plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
Auga[23] = "- author unknown"
Aug[24] = "No garden is without its weeds."
Auga[24] = "- Thomas Fuller"
Aug[25] = "By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight."
Auga[25] = "- John Henry Cardinal Newman"
Aug[26] = "Not wholly in the busy world, not quite beyond it, blooms the garden that I love."
Auga[26] = "- Tennyson"
Aug[27] = "There is no such thing as an ugly garden. Grdens, like babies, are all beautiful to their parents."
Auga[27] = "- Ken Druse"
Aug[28] = "A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."
Auga[28] = "- Sadi"
Aug[29] = "The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers."
Auga[29] = "- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin"
Aug[30] = "Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them."
Auga[30] = "- Chinese proverb"
Aug[31] = "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Auga[31] = "- Albert Einstein"

Sep = new Array
Sepa = new Array
Sep[1] = "I am in love with this green Earth."
Sepa[1] = "- Charles Lamb"
Sep[2] = "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Sepa[2] = "- Galileo"
Sep[3] = "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
Sepa[3] = "- Douglas William Jerrold, A Land of Plenty"
Sep[4] = "The west wind always brings wet weather, the east wind wet and cold together, the south wind surely brings us rain, the north wind blows it back again"
Sepa[4] = ""
Sep[5] = "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
Sepa[5] = "- Kozuko Okakura"

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