“I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.”
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
“We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”
“My heart is a garden tired with autumn.”
“The day they came to tell me, I was in one of the gardens with Kiernan, trying to decipher a three-hundred-year-old map of the palace grounds.”
“Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let plants identify me.”