There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

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.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.