There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of pas…

- Vita Sackville-West

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to d…

- Vita Sackville-West

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

- Vita Sackville-West

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

- Vita Sackville-West

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

- Vita Sackville-West

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

- Vita Sackville-West

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one…

- Vita Sackville-West

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

- Vita Sackville-West

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment …

- Vita Sackville-West