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.

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!

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.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

A word only writes its night and rides its dream.

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

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.