Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by 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.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.