“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all ...” — James Douglas Quote

“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.”

“France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.”

“Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.”

“Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.”

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

“From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”