Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Jesus Christ is the Saviour.

We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I absolutely get more comfortable in my body and my skin as I get older, more than when I was in my 20s.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.