Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there, in some annoyance, sat at toad.

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.