we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.