however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree