A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

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.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.