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

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

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

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

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

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.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.