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

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.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

How would you document the history of today?

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!

Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.