A quote

The incomparible Henry Mitchell writes in his essay "On the Defiance of Gardeners" (The Essential Earthman) that "It is not nice to garden anywhere. Everywhere there are violent winds, startling once-per-five-centuries floods, unprecedented droughts, record-setting freezes, abusive and blasting heats never known before. There is no place, no garden where these terrible things do not drive gardeners mad...There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Defiance...is what makes gardeners."

(stolen entire from a comment left at Prairie Point by  M Stevens)