Omniscience is certainly one of the noblest attributes of the Most High, and the nearer man approaches it the more surely he gains at least the shadow of a quality to which he cannot aspire." Finally he discussed his gardening work in the park at Branitz, and I regret having noted only the main outlines of what he said, for it was as interesting as it was admirable.

I can only cite the following sentence from a letter addressed to Blasewitz: "What was I to do?
A prince without a country, like myself, wishes at least to be ruler in one domain, and that I am, as creator of a park.

The subjects over whom I reign obey me better than the Russians, who still retain a trace of free will, submit to their Czar.

My trees and bushes obey only me and the eternal laws implanted in their nature, and which I know.

Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves.