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Jane Hirshfield Quotes: This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
         

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.


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This page presents the quote "This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.". Author of this quote is Jane Hirshfield. This quote is about tasks, earth, essentials, garden, metaphor,.