May Sarton Quotes About Gardening
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Gardening is the instrument of grace.
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.
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