A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.