You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble.

Life is easy. Just stay un-dead.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.