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

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

... 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.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

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

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.