"Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by."

“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”

“Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.”

Source : Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.”

“Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa”

“Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.”

“We don't want to keep secrets anymore.”

“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”