This is my gardening philosophy for designing your garden:

"No one else can see the world the way you see it."No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground."

"Rilke said, in turbulent times you should endeavor to stay close to one simple thing in nature. And I think everyone, no matter where they live, should have some place in nature that they go to. When you are truly present in landscape you know afterwards that something has shifted within you or some burden has fallen."      ~John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782