The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.