With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the …

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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 th…

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball…

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world hav…

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least f…

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

- Katharine Sergeant Angell White