Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.