Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

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

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

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

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

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

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

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

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

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

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.