I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).