Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.Collection: Adversity
In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.Collection: Nature
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.Collection: Spring
Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.Collection: Heart
Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.Collection: Positive
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.Collection: Dream
in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.Collection: Regret
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.Collection: Summer
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.Collection: Giving
This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.Collection: Summer
Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?Collection: Queens
In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.Collection: Memories
Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.Collection: Garden
Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.Collection: Sunshine
September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.Collection: Maturity
I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.Collection: Summer
If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.Collection: Heart
I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.Collection: Heart
....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.Collection: Ploughing
gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.Collection: Gardening
much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.Collection: Struggle
New words are always being born and old ones fading away.Collection: Fading Away