"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!”

“Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.”

“I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.”

“All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.”

“I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.”

“Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.”

“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

“Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.”