![]() ![]() – William Coles, 1626-1662, British botanist, in The Art of Simpling, 1656 “A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.” – Alfred Austin (1835-1913), British poet laureate, from The Garden That I Love, 1894 Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.” “A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. – Ruskin Bond, 1934-, Indian author and poet, in Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas But if I don’t succeed, never mind – I’ve still got the dream.” “Yes, I’d love to have a garden of my own – spacious and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. – Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, revolutionary, president, gardener 2018 Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.” – Jeff Cox, American garden writer, 1940. “A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.” – Gertrude Jekyll, 1843-1932, arguably the 20th century’s most influential garden designer and author “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861 “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Huck Finn in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, Detective, 1896 ![]() And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Edwin Way Teale, 1899-1980, American naturalist and writer – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author ( The Scarlet Letter, etc.), 1804-1864 It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.” “I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. – Seneca the Younger, 4 BC-65 AD, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist – David Stuart, Gardening with Heirloom Plants, 1997 “Now that so much of the world’s native flora has been discovered, the past is the new frontier.” ![]() – Anne Raver, contemporary American garden writer ( Deep in the Green, etc.) It has so many layers and winding paths, real or imagined, that it can never be known, completely, even by the most intimate of friends.” – William Lawson, British vicar and author, 1554-1635, in A New Orchard and Garden, 1618 ![]() – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, essayist, and poet, 1803-1882 2019Ī garden “makes all our senses swim in pleasure, and that with infinite variety.” – Robert Frost, American poet, 1874-1963, in “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” 1923 Her early leaf’s a flower / But only so an hour.” “Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. – Voltaire, 1694-1778, in Candide (These words of wisdom are spoken by the once-innocent Candide at the very end of the book, after his long journey through a world of terrible suffering.) Enjoy!įor other topics, please see our main Newsletter Archives page. They’re all archived here, starting with the most recently published. We start every issue of our email newsletter with a GARDEN QUOTATION. ![]()
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