“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.”

Describing the quiet bliss of early solitude among flowers · An Island Garden

• Happiness
• Nature
• Solitude

“Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

Comparing the gift for gardening to other artistic vocations · An Island Garden

• Beauty
• Nature
• Vocation

“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.”

Marvelling at the latent beauty contained in a seed · An Island Garden

• Creation
• Nature
• Wonder

“This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.”

Finding wonder and reverence in ordinary gardening · An Island Garden

• Joy
• Nature
• Wonder

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

A reverent reflection on the creativity and sacred intelligence of the natural world · Prose writing

• Beauty
• Faith
• Nature