"For me, holiness presented itself in the form of symbols that as a child playing in the garden, I repeatedly experienced nature, the center of all my earthly attention. The memory that lingers most hauntingly is the grandeur of God's world, the variety of His spoken word in every plant, tree and flower."

The garden has taught me lessons in meditation though I did not know at that time that is what I was being taught-to be in private communion with my soul."

"The garden has always been for me the closest to heaven. Next to the Church, it was the flowers, trees and herbs that led me to kneeling."