Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper..

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man..

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier..

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into..

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up th….

To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as wel….

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a go….

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not..

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed..

... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the….

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contr….

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not..

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You..

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all..

The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup..

The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are des….

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of..

Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want a break. It is somethi….

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden..

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot..

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens..