It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

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.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

Geological time is not money.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.