“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed”

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”

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

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament”

“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”