The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
Charles Dudley WarnerA well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner