But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

It is strange how easy it is to remember pain.

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.