One of my favorite sources for literary quotes is Quotations By Women.
Not surprisingly, there are none about pirates. WHich makes sense. Pirates weren't terribly nice to women.
However, there were many about gardening:
Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is the triumph of hope over experience.
~Phyllis McGinley
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
~Rumer Godden China Court
There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
~Gladys Taber
To create a garden is to search for a better world.
~Marina Schinz
While not poetic, I thought the next two were amusing.
In what other job can a person be inventor, scientist, landscape gardener, ditch digger, researcher, problem solver, artist, exorcist, and on top of that eat one's successes at dinner?
~Dorothy Gilman A New kind of Country
Lydia was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener..she was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes, with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
~Renata Adler Speedboat |
