We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. – Evelyn Underhill, Letters
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. – C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons. – Ben Barnes
If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you. – Kim Russo, “The Haunting Of… Meat Loaf” (original airdate 2015 October 22n