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.

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.

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

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

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

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.