There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
Ruth StoutIt’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.
Ruth StoutThe central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.
Ruth StoutWorking in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.
Ruth Stout