I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.