when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

- Dorothy Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

- Dorothy Gilman

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour o…

- Dorothy Gilman

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

- Dorothy Gilman

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

- Dorothy Gilman

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

- Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

- Dorothy Gilman

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings …

- Dorothy Gilman

The best things arrive on time.

- Dorothy Gilman