Beans Quote by Ruth Stout

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

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

— Ruth Stout

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

Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no…

— Ruth Stout

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

— Ruth Stout

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

— Ruth Stout

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

— Ruth Stout

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

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”

— Ruth Stout

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

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

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do…

— Ruth Stout