The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

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.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.