That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.