One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. – W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Author Unknown

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. – Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. “It must be up there somewhere on the horizon,” we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet. – William Bryant Logan, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth