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

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

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

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.