Alice Vincent > Quotes

“Because things do continue to grow. Plants exist to live just like we do, in spite of bad days and confines. In spite of the punishing controls that we suffer under and that we put on ourselves.”
― Alice Vincent, Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

“London is my most compelling lover; I am hooked on it, for all its mistreatment. Expensive and demanding and, if you know where to look, beautiful.”
― Alice Vincent, Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

“Matt told me he'd like to get me a garden, one day. It was exactly the kind of simple, preposterous ambition he tends to make - bold and big and untethered by reality. I laughed. I still think it's the most romantic thing he's ever said.”
― Alice Vincent , Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival