A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Not seeing is half-believing.

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.