Ruth Stout Quotes
- Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
- The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.
- There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on…
- Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
- There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.
- Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush…
- 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 really…
- 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…
- Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
- I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.