I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

In a well-made garden every day is new.

You, Faery Man, are wonderful.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

I love the outdoors. I love to hike. I spend a lot of time in LA and so I hike all the hills.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.