Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

Rome is everybody's memory.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Let me tell you about my family.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.