When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
