“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?”

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”

“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”

“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

“I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.”

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”

“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”

“Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.”