Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

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.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

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

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.