Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.