I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

Everything comes down to attitude: You determine what yours is, and the external world will reflect it back.

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.