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Jana = new Array
Jan[1] = "The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31."
Jana[1] = "- Marie Huston"
Jan[2] = "A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
Jana[2] = "- nursery rhyme"
Jan[3] = "Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth."
Jana[3] = "- Vita Sackville-West"
Jan[4] = "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."
Jana[4] = "- Abram L. Urban"
Jan[5] = "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Jana[5] = "- Albert Einstein"

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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"
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Sep[5] = "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
Sepa[5] = "- Kozuko Okakura"
Sep[6] = "Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us."
Sepa[6] = "- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
Sep[7] = "To have complete satisfaction from flowers you must have time to spend with them. There must be rapport. I talk to them and they talk to me."
Sepa[7] = "- Princess Grace of Monaco"
Sep[8] = "The late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of year."
Sepa[8] = "- William Longgood"
Sep[9] = "To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
Sepa[9] = "- Beverley Nichols"
Sep[10] = "Let the farmer remember that every bird destroyed, and every nest robbed, is equivalent to a definite increase in insects with which he already has to struggle. He will soon appreciate the fact that he has a personal interest, and a strong one, in the preservation of birds."
Sepa[10] = "- Henry Oldys"
Sep[11] = "Flowers bring to a liberall and gentlemanly minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse and all kindes of virtues."
Sepa[11] = "- John Gerard"
Sep[12] = "Organic gardening is not just the avoidance of chemicals, in the larger view, it is organic living using nature's laws."
Sepa[12] = "- author unknown"
Sep[13] = "Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence."
Sepa[13] = "- Henry Mitchell"
Sep[14] = "It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life."
Sepa[14] = "- Jacqueline Heriteau"
Sep[15] = "There is a great pleasure in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world."
Sepa[15] = "- author unknown"
Sep[16] = "A garden is not made in a year; indeed it is never made in the sense of finality. It grows, and with the labour of love should go on growing."
Sepa[16] = "- Frederick Eden"
Sep[17] = "Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed the soul."
Sepa[17] = "- The Koran"
Sep[18] = "Gardening gives me fun and health and knowledge. It gives me laughter and colour. It gives me pictures of almost incrdeible beauty."
Sepa[18] = "- John F. Kenyon"
Sep[19] = "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
Sepa[19] = "- Rabindranath Tagore"
Sep[20] = "Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart."
Sepa[20] = "- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks"
Sep[21] = "The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them."
Sepa[21] = "- Max Schling"
Sep[22] = "If you would be happy your whole life long, become a gardener."
Sepa[22] = "- old Chinese proverb"
Sep[23] = "Gardening is renewing and refreshing to your soul, especially when your doing it in a quiet rural setting. Accompained by the nectar loving hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies it is easy for the gardener to slip into a restorative meditation."
Sepa[23] = "- author unknown"
Sep[24] = "We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
Sepa[24] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Sep[25] = "If well managed, nothing is more beautiful than a kitchen-garden."
Sepa[25] = "- William Cobbett"
Sep[26] = "More grows in the garden than the gardener sows."
Sepa[26] = "- old Spanish proverb"
Sep[27] = "How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
Sepa[27] = "- Alexander Smith"
Sep[28] = "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
Sepa[28] = "- Doug Larson"
Sep[29] = "What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven."
Sepa[29] = "- A.J. Balfour"
Sep[30] = "The only two herbicides we recommend are cultivation and mulching."
Sepa[30] = "- Organic Gardening Magazine"

Oct = new Array
Octa = new Array
Oct[1] = "Chrysanthemums in bloom over a carpet of dry leaves ..."
Octa[1] = "- Michael P. Garofalo"
Oct[2] = "Do not travel thousands of miles to see a saved nature in Costa Rica or other similar lands. Save your own nature right where you are. Ecology starts at home."
Octa [2] = "- Robert Muller"
Oct[3] = "In the garden, Autumn is indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
Octa[3] = "- Rose G. Kingsley"
Oct[4] = "You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is."
Octa[4] = "- Will Rogers"
Oct[5] = "It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
Octa[5] = "- Robert Louis Stevenson"
Oct[6] = "Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity."
Octa[6] = "- Lindley Karstens"
Oct[7] = "I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them.  I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master.  I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit."
Octa[7] = "- Reginald Farrer, in a Yorkshire Garden, 1909"
Oct[8] = "Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace, happiness and prosperity to grow upon the face of the earth. Be a creator of mental sunshine."
Octa[8] = "- Kathi's Garden"
Oct[9] = "I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day."
Octa[9] = "- F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace"
Oct[10] = "Unlike your favorite painting or sentimental vase, a landscape is alive and constantly changing."
Octa[10] = "- author unknown"
Oct[11] = "Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation.  It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart."
Octa[11] = "- Karol Capek, The Gardener's Year"
Oct[12] = "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."
Octa[12] = "- Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988"
Oct[13] = "Gardening is a kind of disease.  It infects you, you cannot escape it.  When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed."
Octa[13] = "- Lewis Gannit"
Oct[14] = "There is no gardening without humility.  Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
Octa[14] = "- Alfred Austin"
Oct[15] = "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Octa[15] = "- Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat"
Oct[16] = "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
Octa[16] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Oct[17] = "There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."
Octa[17] = "- Gertrude Jekyll"
Oct[18] = "Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty."
Octa[18] = "- Thomas Moore"
Oct[19] = "The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden." 
Octa[19] = "- Thomas Moore"
Oct[20] = "Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures?  Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.'"
Octa[20] = "- author unknown"
Oct[21] = "Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"
Octa[21] = "- Maurice Maeterlinck"
Oct[22] = "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
Octa[22] = "- Jacques Deval"
Oct[23] = "Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons."
Octa[23] = "- Dave Barry"
Oct[24] = "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Octa[24] = "- Albert Camus"
Oct[25] = "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
Octa[25] = "- John Donne"
Oct[26] = "In the garden, Autumn is indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
Octa[26] = "- Rose G. Kingsley 'The Autumn Garden'"
Oct[27] = "There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."
Octa[27] = "- Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Oct[28] = "Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
Octa[28] = "- Samuel Butler"
Oct[29] = "The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills...  Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay; ... its time of flowers and even of fruit was over."
Octa[29] = "- Charlotte Brontë"
Oct[30] = "How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence."
Octa[30] = "- Benjamin Disraeli"
Oct[31] = "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."
Octa[31] = "- Elizabeth Murray"

Nov = new Array
Nova = new Array
Nov[1] = "Harvest home, harvest home! We've plowed, we've sowed, we've reaped, we've mowed And brought safe home every load."
Nova[1] = "- Harvest Home song"
Nov[2] = "A garden is the best alternative therapy."
Nova[2] = "- Germaine Greer"
Nov[3] = "For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
Nova[3] = "- Edwin Way Teale"
Nov[4] = "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Nova[4] = "- Marcel Proust"
Nov[5] = "A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no Garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house."
Nova[5] = "- William Coles"
Nov[6] = "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
Nova[6] = "- John Muir"
Nov[7] = "Every garden, great and small, starts with a plot of ground and willing hands to accomplish numerous tasks from situating the garden to harvesting its bounty."
Nova[7] = "- author unknown"
Nov[8] = "You know you are a gardener, if you find compost a fascinating subject."
Nova[8] = "- author unknown"
Nov[9] = "Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
Nova[9] = "- Rudyard Kipling"
Nov[10] = "A garden is the best alternative therapy."
Nova[10] = "- Germaine Greer"
Nov[11] = "Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination.  Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power."
Nova[11] = "- Karl Wilhelm Humboldt"
Nov[12] = "The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everytning else are favourable, is never a master of his craft."
Nova[12] = "- Canon Ellacombe"
Nov[13] = "How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence."
Nova[13] = "- Benjamin Disraeli"
Nov[14] = "Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt."
Nova[14] = "- Barbara Kingsolver"
Nov[15] = "A green thumb is nothing more than hard work and the desire to make things grow."
Nova[15] = "- Albert E. Tuttle"
Nov[16] = "You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach that which you can never learn from masters."
Nova[16] = "- Saint Bernard"
Nov[17] = "If a tree is treated as a living organism, with an understanding of its vital functions, it will be a constant source of profit and pleasure to men."
Nova[17] = "- N.T. Mirov"
Nov[18] = "For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
Nova[18] = "- George Gissing, ' Winter'"
Nov[19] = "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Nova[19] = "- Anthony J. D'Angelo"
Nov[20] = "Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof."
Nova[20] = "- Julie Moir Messervy"
Nov[21] = "The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating."
Nova[21] = "- John Schaar"
Nov[22] = "One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge."
Nova[22] = "- Janet Gillespie"
Nov[23] = "Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."
Nova[23] = "- Sir Walter Scott"
Nov[24] = "One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds."
Nova[24] = "- Dan Bennett"
Nov[25] = "Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden. Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy."
Nova[25] = "- Julie Moir Messervy"
Nov[26] = "Texture and foliage keep a garden interesting through the season. Flowers are just moments of gratification."
Nova[26] = "- Kevin Doyle"
Nov[27] = "Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts."
Nova[27] = "- anonymous"
Nov[28] = "The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before."
Nova[28] = "- Vita Sackville-West"
Nov[29] = "Gardening is something you learn by doing - and by making mistakes. Like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures."
Nova[29] = "- Carol Stocker"
Nov[30] = "No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - No vember!"
Nova[30] = "- Thomas Hood, 'No!'"

Dec = new Array
Deca = new Array
Dec[1] = "Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them."
Deca[1] = "- Vincent A. Simeone"
Dec[2] = "My garden slumbers in the winter, peaceful, quiet, weedfree. It's tranquil in this setting, no weeds to be seen."
Deca[2] = "- Christine Blanksvard"
Dec[3] = "All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."
Deca[3] = "- Helen Hayes"
Dec[4] = "Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise."
Deca[4] = "- Henry Mitchell"
Dec[5] = "The only book to read out of is the book of nature herself."
Deca[5] = "- William J. Long"
Dec[6] = "A soil is not a pile of dirt. It is a transformer, a body that organizes raw materials into tissues. These are the tissues that become the mother to all organic life."
Deca[6] = "- William Bryant Logan"
Dec[7] = "Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
Deca[7] = "- Lou Erickson"
Dec[8] = "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."
Deca[8] = "- Mirabel Osler"
Dec[9] = "The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives."
Deca[9] = "- Gertrude Jekyll"
Dec[10] = "We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden."
Deca[10] = "- author unknown"
Dec[11] = "The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before."
Deca[11] = "- Vita Sackville-West"
Dec[12] = "When Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
Deca[12] = "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Dec[13] = "Snowflakes are kisses from heaven."
Deca[13] = "author unknown"
Dec[14] = "Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Deca[14] = "- Hans Christian Andersen"
Dec[15] = "Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines."
Deca[15] = "- Vita Sackville-West"
Dec[16] = "Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
Deca[16] = "- William Wordsworth"
Dec[17] = "We belong to no cult.  We are not Nature Lovers.  We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are."
Deca[17] = "- Louise Dickenson Rich"
Dec[18] = "Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl."
Deca[18] = "- Barbara Winkler"
Dec[19] = "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Deca[19] = "- Mohandas K. Gandhi"
Dec[20] = "Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."
Deca[20] = " - Luther Burbank"
Dec[21] = "I heard a bird sing in the dark of December, a magical thing and sweet to remember: ' We are nearer to Spring than we were in September ' I heard a bird sing in the dark of December."
Deca[21] = "- Oliver Herford 'I Heard a Bird Sing'"
Dec[22] = "I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here hath gladsome gardens of his own."
Deca[22] = "- Dorothy Wordsworth 'Peaceful Our Valley, Fair and Green'"
Dec[23] = "Someone painted pictures on my windowpane last night - Willow trees with trailing boughs and flowers, frosty white, and lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun touched them with its golden beams, they vanished one by one."
Deca[23] = "- Helen Bayley Davis 'Jack Frost'"
Dec[24] = "May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love."
Deca[24] = "- Ada V. Hendricks "
Dec[25] = "I heard the bells on Christmas Day their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Deca[25] = "- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "
Dec[26] = "In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Deca[26] = "- Albert Camus"
Dec[27] = "Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."
Deca[27] = "- Ruth Stout"
Dec[28] = "The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn."
Deca[28] = "- Patricia Hampl"
Dec[29] = "Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike."
Deca[29] = "-  John Muir"
Dec[30] = "From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye."
Deca[30] = "- Katherine S. White"
Dec[31] = "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."
Deca[31] = "- Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Ring Out, Wild Bells'"


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