One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness.

Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.