A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

She dreams more often than she sleeps

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

I really tend to write in retrospect.