Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

I've never really been a workaholic.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.