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The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

My husband will tell you one of the most frequent questions he gets from world leaders is, 'How's your wife's garden?'

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.