I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that werent really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. – Ken Thompson
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
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, yknow, What does your dad do for a living? So I said He helps women get pregnant! They called my mom and they were like, What exactly does your husband do? – Natalie Portman
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isnt as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. – Carla Bley
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. Shes a professor in Boston, and shes been teaching womens studies for 30 years and international politics. – Eliza Dushku
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because its very easy to be caught up in this world. – Katy Perry
