How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish ones horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? – Francis Cabot Lowell
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, Im the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so Im not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So Im just relaxing and enjoying it. – Betty White
