Katharine Sergeant Angell White Quotes

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

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#3. With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls ... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#4. 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.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#5. From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White