Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas.

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.