Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

Read more learn more, change the globe

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.