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.

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.

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

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

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

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.

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.