1. “A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart’s desire.”
2. “Well, I love geraniums and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”
3. “We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.”
4. “Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
5. “As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”
6. “To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.”
7. “It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”
8. “For a garden is a mistress and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.”
9. “Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?.”
10. “A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”
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