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…

- Ruth Stout

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

- Ruth Stout

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 …

- Ruth Stout

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…

- Ruth Stout

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

- Ruth Stout

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

- Ruth Stout

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.

- Ruth Stout

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

- Ruth Stout

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.

- Ruth Stout