You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who think you are a monster if you don't 'love children,' however obnoxious the children may be? Well, I found out that many people who love flowers look down on those who don't.

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

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.

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

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.

To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.