What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

The best things arrive on time.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.