Patrick

“Magenta, the discount pigment with which nature has brushed a thousand weeds, has always been a mark of bad breeding in the garden world.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“It does seem odd now, this early-twentieth-century view that social status made one kind of physical activity—work, you could call it—acceptable and another very much not. Gardening, you get a lot hotter and dirtier than you do dusting a room or washing a floor. But gardening was a genteel occupation, housework a demeaning task that you paid someone else to do.”
― Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden

“I suppose the fascination of gardening lies a lot in the way one can plan for the future. Especially in such an insecure world. I open my morning paper and read of some fresh new horror the scientists have devised and then I plan some change in the garden that won’t be fully realized for at least five or six years. It’s illogical, of course, but it’s some comfort.”
― Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations