No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.