The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

If a child says it has five senses, their parents will surely believe that it has the sixth one as well.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.