We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

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.

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.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing OVER AND OVER

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.