The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.