“I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps . . . It just feels right.”
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
“The Internet is super for the theoretical/dreaming/communicating of ideas side of this wonderful pastime, but "gardening" is a verb, and getting dirt under the old fingernails can't be done by computer. I don't see that it could ever change real "gardening".”
“His conscience got the better of him. He's feeling that the family next door needed closure. He feels that another person might have been unjustly prosecuted.”
“another person might have been unjustly prosecuted, and for other reasons which I can't explain at this time, but will become evident in the course of time, it was his firm instructions to me that he wished to get this matter over with.”
