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.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

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

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.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

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.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.