Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. – Rudyard Kipling
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. – Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil