Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. – Author Unknown

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

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

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981