To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

- Stanley Crawford

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

- Stanley Crawford

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatteri…

- Stanley Crawford

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one should…

- Stanley Crawford

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into a…

- Stanley Crawford