The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Not seeing is half-believing.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.