it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment.

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.