I loathe gardening but I love gardens and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening but I love gardens.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination how can we be very far from the beginning?

Garden as though you will live forever.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.