Katharine S. White Quotes (4 Quotes)

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords soft mattress for a creeping baby worm hatchery for a robin croquet or badminton court baseball diamond restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge green shadows - 'This lawn, a carpet all alive With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.