To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

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.

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.

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.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

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

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.

I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.