Quote Tag

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Nature is the art of God.

Earth laughs in flowers.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.