If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any percept….

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time….

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden..

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace..

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place..

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to th….

To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their m….

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results..

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself..

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts..

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitud….

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on..

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss..

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in ….

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to..

You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who t….

Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowin….