Summer makes a silence after spring.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

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 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.

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

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.