Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
If someone asks me where I bought something I’m wearing, I will usually say I don’t remember.
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.