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Quote by Lewis Gannit
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. – Lewis Gannit

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