There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.