Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?

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.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

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

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