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 | "The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in
a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and
here we all are at one point or another. It"s not a question of superior
or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the
moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about
in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole
point." | |
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Found in the topic Garden.
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| "There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener
stops wondering if it"s too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering
if it"s too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the
gardener"s notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too
soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden
is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and
chasm of the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to
expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of
October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I
was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and
there, in some annoyance, sat at toad." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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