I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Theroux
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. – Phyllis Theroux
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. – Phyllis Theroux
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009
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