If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.