The glory of gardening: 

hands in the dirt, 

head in the sun, 

heart with nature. 

To nurture a garden is to feed 

not just on the body, 

but the soul.

An inconvenience is an adventure 

wrongly considered.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, 

but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, 

which is independent of all experience in its origin, 

though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

How prone to doubt, 

how cautious 

are the wise!

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, 

not to create it.

I think childhood is 

to everyone 

a lost land.

Culture hides much more than it reveals, 

and strangely enough, 

what it hides, 

it hides most effectively 

from its own participants.

Art is made to disturb, 

science reassures.

A man who is not afraid 

is not aggressive, 

a man who has no sense of fear 

of any kind 

is really 

a free, a peaceful man.

To be surprised, 

to wonder, 

is to begin to understand.

Take away love 

and our earth is a tomb.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, 

but it does not rest 

until it has gained a hearing.

Sit down before fact
as a little child, 

be prepared to give up
every conceived notion, 

follow humbly
wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, 

or you will learn nothing.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, 

but we can do far more than comprehend.

It is not knowledge, 

but the act of learning, 

not possession 

but the act of getting there, 

which grants the greatest enjoyment.