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

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.

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.

There are no signposts in the sea.

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

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

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree