Tools have their own integrity.

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.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.