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
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
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. – Charles Caleb Colton