It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.