... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.