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.

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

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

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.

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.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

It is the way of women to keep us humble, is it not?

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

Sometimes we win; more times than not, we don't. But that's his choice.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.