Richard Goodman

"I had a garden in the south of France.  It wasn't a big garden.  Or a sumptuous one.  Or a successful one, even in the end.  But that didn't matter.  It was my garden, and i worked it hard and lovingly for the few months I had it--or it had me.  This little piece of tan, clayey, French earth, nine meters by thirteen meters, (thirty feet by forty-three feet), was in fact the first garden I ever had.  it taught me a great deal about myself.  "your garden will reveal yourself," writes the wise gardener Henry Mitchell.  It did.