There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

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?

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

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

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

It’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.

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.