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
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. – Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. – Christopher Hitchens