It's gotta be a weird day when I'm gardening and suddenly realize that I could describe a lot of my personality as either a gay Ent or a dyke Entwife.
I think it was all the time I spent talking to the little vines I was tying up on the (finally!!!) newly-assembled trellis. I wasn't having a conversation, I was reassuring them that they were going to be fine and telling them to be happy and grow. At which point the quote fragment popped into my head, “They did not desire to speak with these things; but they wished them to hear and obey…”
The Entwifish definition of 'peace', which I'd forgotten until looking up the full quote, is spot on for me, too: “by which they meant that things should remain where they had set them”. And it's not just me, either. “Mr Horrible says I don't mind, the thing that bothers me is, someone keeps moving my cha-air! Someone keeps moving my chair!”
“…the Ents gave their love to things that they met in the world, and the Entwives gave their thought to other things, for the Ents loved the great trees … the wild woods … the high hills; … they learned of the Elves and spoke with the Trees. But the Entwives gave their minds to the lesser trees, … the meads … the wild apple … the cherry … the green herbs… and the seeding grasses … They did not desire to speak with these things; but they wished them to hear and obey … to grow according to their wishes, and bear leaf and fruit to their liking; for the Entwives desired order, and plenty, and peace (by which they meant that things should remain where they had set them). So the Entwives made gardens to live in. But we Ents went on wandering, and we only came to the gardens now and again. “
Relentless Inquiry 
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