“I confess, I hope she does not hurry. It is good to be alone in the snow.” ― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

 “A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”

― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education