The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

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.

The garden that is finished is dead.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Realize Realization with Knowledge!

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .