Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require. . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden. . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.