“The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.”

“A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.”

“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”

“Nature's probably my greatest inspiration. Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't find what you're looking for in wild places or the eyes of wild creatures, it probably doesn't exist.”

“What wild undisturbed corners do you leave within you or within your partner, your children, your parents, your closest friends? What is left respectfully and quietly for passive cultivation, for privacy, for the imagination, for discovery, for serendipity, for faith, for secrecy, for grace, for reverence, for the untapped, for the future, for the unknowable and the unknown?”

“The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.”