One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.