The garden that is finished is dead.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.