A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Hope because the Universe hears you. Hope because the Universe works for you. Hope because the Universe speaks to you. Hope because the Universe will finish what it began in you.

I spent most of my life believing there would never be a Prince Charming out there for me. Kissing toads can have that effect on a girl.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.