13 Quotes by Ruth Stout

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

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

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 when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

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

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

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

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

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.

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