Summer makes a silence after spring.

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.

You bring out a passion in me I’ve never felt for anyone.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.