“Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.”

“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”

“What people want, above all, is order.”

“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”

“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”

“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”

“Were all given gifts in life, its what we do with them that shows us what weve learned.”

“What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share the experience with others. I have to think it is about bringing gifts from spirit back to the...”

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatev...”

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of th...”

“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present, nor the future, nor the stars, nor the abyss, nor any creature: nothing will keep fro...”

“When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law, she was ready to agree. It took her only about a month to read every federal...”

“Ocean separates lands, not souls..”