Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in….

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope..

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense..

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges..

There's nothing I won't attempt..

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing..

You have to take everything as it comes..

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!.

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden..

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds..

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

No one is content with his own lot..

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us..

But death we are, and death we've always been..