There is no gardening without humility

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

Authors don't have wings. We must climb the mountain, not try to fly to its top.

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.