his garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself,  earth using, as always, everything it can.

garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

how me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

e learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

he longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.

s the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced  by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control,  servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism all meld together to provide nurturance. Try to separate the various aspects into their constituent parts – grant any one of them the status of fundamental gardening definition and one soon skews the entire process. Put them back together again in the service of the two-way street called nurturance, and we express the state of grace called gardening.