In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

Carving the world outside of you requires magical insights and deep out-worldly thinking.

If one flower has to grow out of all the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging - it definitely wasn't the fake love.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.