Let Us Be Grateful to People

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

On a related note, playing in dirt can be good for you per this Quartz article titled “Dirt has a microbiome, and it may double as an antidepressant” .

About the author

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu; with the previous English title translation of Remembrance of Things Past), originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.