Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.