Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Author Unknown

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977