Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Friends are flowers in life's garden.