Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

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.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

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

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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