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

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

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.

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

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.

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.