As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.