I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

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.

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

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

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

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

There are no signposts in the sea.