It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth.

Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone.

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.