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I like my home and I like the nature.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.