A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish ones horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? – Francis Cabot Lowell