Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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.

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

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.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.