Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.