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.

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.

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

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

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.