“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”
“...you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.”
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”
“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
“Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.”