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

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.

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.

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

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you; you have created your reality by how you have treated others in your past.