In a well-made garden every day is new.

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

I wasn't used to guys making me blush, and I wasn't sure why he even was making me blush.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Time is long but life is short.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.