The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

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.

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

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

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

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