You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite… — Ruth Stout Children 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 Belonging 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… — Ruth Stout Better off 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… — Ruth Stout Beans Copy Share Image
Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There… — Ruth Stout Accomplishment 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 Enjoyment 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 Challenges Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout Beats 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… — Ruth Stout Be encouraged Copy Share Image
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” — Ruth Stout Garden 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… — Ruth Stout Belonging 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,… — Ruth Stout Book Copy Share Image
Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And… — Ruth Stout Bed Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Betrayal Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another… — Ruth Stout Angle Copy Share Image
When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much… — Ruth Stout Asks Copy Share Image
