I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it read more

Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even read more

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no read more

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.