A garden is not a picture, but a language.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

If we wish to grow in grace in the knowledge of God, we must study the Scriptures.

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered everything I have, I forgot everything I lost.

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.