If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

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

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

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.

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.

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